Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Haru Suke G1

Description

Region: Southern Nations, Gedeo, Yirgacheffe
Varietal: Local landraces and JARC74
Process: Natural

This exceptional Natural coffee was dry milled and exported by Primrose, PLC. The coffee was grown by smallholder farmers living around the kabele (town) of Haru Suke in Gedeo County, Yirgacheffee region.

Varieties in Ethiopia fall within two main groups - regional or local landraces (of which there are at least 130, 33 of which would hail from the Southern growing regions) or JARC varieties. It is still very hard to tell but it is highly likely that this lot contains a great percentage of JARC 74110 and 74112 varieties, developed in 1974 by the JARC, which are directly descended from local landraces indigenous to the Gedeo Region. Most farmers have a mix of both the improved and the indigenous landrace varieties (inherited from parents and grandparents) on their farms, though research by Counter Culture's Getu Bekele does show that there is a strong concentration of the JARC'74 varieties.