Descripción
This lot is sourced from family-owned farms, organised around the Ruarai Factory (wet mill) in Nyeri County, Kenya. Ruarai is a Kikuyu name meaning “place of rocks,” which refers to the rock-filled Ruarai River that runs close to the mill, and which the factory is named after. The Ruthaka Farmers Cooperative Society manages the Ruarai Factory, which processes cherries from members who generally cultivate around 250 coffee trees on half-acre plots. Small plots give these producers the possibility to pick and deliver only the ripest cherry to the factory. Cherry sorting is also done at the factory before the coffee is depulped, fermented and washed. The coffee is subsequently soaked in fresh water for long periods of time to solidify the hallmark Kenyan profiles.