Ethiopia Arsosala Special Prep

Arsosala is a washing station founded in 2015 that currently serves about 1,200 smallholder producers in the Urga woreda of Guji. 

The majority of Ethiopia’s farmers are smallholders and sustenance farmers, with less than 1 hectare of land apiece. The smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt.

With the special prep the cherries are collected from a limited number of small-holder farmers. 90% of the cherries are perfectly picked, the right red color. All of it is processed and stored it separately from the other lots. They generally produce a very small number of bags in this way every year. In most instances, cherries used to produce these lots are collected from a day lot (picked in one day).

Ethiopia Kochere

Kore is the village, or kebele, where this coffee is grown and processed, in the Kochere "district" or woreda within Yirgacheffe. Kore is about 25 kilometres from the center of Yirgacheffe Town. The soils in this region are red-brown clay soil, about 1.5 meters deep.

The coffee is picked and delivered to the Boji washing station, de-pulped within 12 hours, and washed using spring water. 

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt.

We roast our coffee beans here in store.

Try our House Blend Easy Street, or one of our rotating Single Origins.

Then pick out a bag of coffee beans to take and enjoy at home.

If you are interested in joining The Town Roaster family for coffee for your office, coffee shop or retail store, please get in touch.