Varietals: Ethiopian Heirloom

Milling Process: Fully Washed

Drying Process: Raised Beds

Harvest Start Month: September

Harvest End Month: December

Export Start Month: January

Export End Month: September

The Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (SCFCU) was founded in 2001 to represent coffee producing cooperatives located throughout the Sidama Zone of Southern Ethiopia. As of 2013, the SCFCU has grown to represent 46 cooperatives and 80,000 farmers making the SCFCU the second largest coffee producing cooperative union in Ethiopia. The Organic Ethiopian Washed Sidamo SHOYE FAIR TRADE is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Shoye Cooperative located within the Dale district. It is comprised of indigenous heirloom cultivars and exhibits notes of lemongrass and black tea.