This coffee comes from a washing station called Shentawane in Sidama. Shentawane is located in the Bensa district. 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 or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt.

The washing stations serve as many as several hundred to sometimes a thousand or more producers, who deliver cherry throughout the harvest season. Typically farmers in this region don't have access to and therefore do not utilise fertilisers or pesticides in the production of coffee.