ETHIOPIA | DAYE BENSA SHANTAWENE - NATURAL
CURRENT ROAST | OCTOBER 28, 2024
BEST AFTER | 14 DAYS OFF ROAST
BEST BEFORE | 60 DAYS OFF ROAST
Processing Station| Shantawene Gafisse Station
Station Owner/Producer| Assefa Dukamo Korma
Region| Sidama, Bensa, Shantawene Village
Process | Natural
Varietal| Heirloom
Growing altitude| 1990 – 2190 masl
Harvest Month| Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Sourcing| InterAmerican Coffee
Notes| bergamot, milk chocolate, tropical fruit
Roast level | Light
300g / 10.6oz
Our packaging is 100% recyclable.
This is the second year Hedge Coffee is fortunate to offer this fantastic coffee sourced from Shantawene Gafisse Station, one of Daye Bensa’s special stations in Bensa, Sidama. With an altitude of more than 2000 meters above sea level, It is well known for processing coffees sourced at Shantawene Village from its 940 member farmers residing in the mountain range. It provides a working opportunity for 142 local people in a given coffee harvesting year. Gafisse earned its well-renowned recognition for processing the 7th placed 2020 Cup of Excellence Ethiopia Coffee from a cherry produced at Gatta Farm.
CURRENT ROAST | OCTOBER 28, 2024
BEST AFTER | 14 DAYS OFF ROAST
BEST BEFORE | 60 DAYS OFF ROAST
Processing Station| Shantawene Gafisse Station
Station Owner/Producer| Assefa Dukamo Korma
Region| Sidama, Bensa, Shantawene Village
Process | Natural
Varietal| Heirloom
Growing altitude| 1990 – 2190 masl
Harvest Month| Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Sourcing| InterAmerican Coffee
Notes| bergamot, milk chocolate, tropical fruit
Roast level | Light
300g / 10.6oz
Our packaging is 100% recyclable.
This is the second year Hedge Coffee is fortunate to offer this fantastic coffee sourced from Shantawene Gafisse Station, one of Daye Bensa’s special stations in Bensa, Sidama. With an altitude of more than 2000 meters above sea level, It is well known for processing coffees sourced at Shantawene Village from its 940 member farmers residing in the mountain range. It provides a working opportunity for 142 local people in a given coffee harvesting year. Gafisse earned its well-renowned recognition for processing the 7th placed 2020 Cup of Excellence Ethiopia Coffee from a cherry produced at Gatta Farm.
CURRENT ROAST | OCTOBER 28, 2024
BEST AFTER | 14 DAYS OFF ROAST
BEST BEFORE | 60 DAYS OFF ROAST
Processing Station| Shantawene Gafisse Station
Station Owner/Producer| Assefa Dukamo Korma
Region| Sidama, Bensa, Shantawene Village
Process | Natural
Varietal| Heirloom
Growing altitude| 1990 – 2190 masl
Harvest Month| Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Sourcing| InterAmerican Coffee
Notes| bergamot, milk chocolate, tropical fruit
Roast level | Light
300g / 10.6oz
Our packaging is 100% recyclable.
This is the second year Hedge Coffee is fortunate to offer this fantastic coffee sourced from Shantawene Gafisse Station, one of Daye Bensa’s special stations in Bensa, Sidama. With an altitude of more than 2000 meters above sea level, It is well known for processing coffees sourced at Shantawene Village from its 940 member farmers residing in the mountain range. It provides a working opportunity for 142 local people in a given coffee harvesting year. Gafisse earned its well-renowned recognition for processing the 7th placed 2020 Cup of Excellence Ethiopia Coffee from a cherry produced at Gatta Farm.
ETHIOPIA - SHANTAWENE GAFISE FROM DAYE BENSA IN SIDAMA
Ethiopia Shantawene is named after the village where the majority of the people who work on the farm, many of them women, are from. The farm is located at the heart of Shantawene Village within 10km from Daye town in the midst of natural forest and indigenous trees which are expected to be older than 200 years.
The farm is at a reachable distance to out-growers in Bombe, Shantawene, and Keramo villages. It is surrounded by rivers one of them separating Shantawene from Bombe which runs from the hills above Karamo. To maintain natural shades and the fertility of the soil with the consultancy of expertise from the ministry of agriculture various shade trees are planted on the farm.
Along with out-growers farms, it is verified as Organic, C.A.F.E PRACTICE, UTZ, and Rain Forest Alliances.
DAYE BENSA
In 2006, brothers Asefa and Mulugeta Dukamo founded Daye Bensa, a coffee grower and exporter in Ethiopia. Daye Bensa exports coffee from its farm, in the Shantawene Village, as well as from "out-growers" (or smallholders) in three villages: Shantawene, Karamo, and Bombe.
Daye Bensa stretches between 1,900 and 2,217 meters. The delivered cherry comes from out-growers farms higher up the mountain, between 2,000 and 2,400 meters.
Daye Bensa owns 15 washing stations across three districts, and they handle all the coffee they export. Its two farms, in Kaffa and Sidama, are Organic, UTZ, Rainforest Alliance, and C.A.F.E. practices certified.
Each year Daye Bensa hosts an Out-Growers Day. Nearly 1,000 farmers gather to celebrate their harvests and to receive second payments for their coffee cherry contributions. Daye Bensa additionally rewards the top three farmers from each of the three villages with certificates and cash prizes, recognizing them for consistently delivering high-quality cherries.
Going forward, Daye Bensa is hoping to work with more farmers, particularly encourage women farmers, and to work with Hawassa University, to help students perform research to improve coffee quality.