About the Producer

Mountain Harvest was founded by Kenneth Barigye in 2017. Their aim is to reshape the way the world sees and tastes Ugandan coffee through a commitment to long-term economic and environmental sustainability for the producers they work with.

Sironko Station is a centralized wet mill managed by Mountain Harvest at the base of Mt Elgon. Operating as a hub for innovation and research, this station is used to process cherries bought from a handful of communities in the area, which is an unusual practice in Uganda where the vast majority of coffee is processed down to parchment at the farm level. Form research in previous seasons, Mountain Harvest takes advantage of having full variable control during processing, in order to produce Honey and Natural processed microlots, as well as experimental processed nanolots.

For this particular Yellow-Honey microlot, only 10 bags were produced. Red ripe cherries are pulped and placed on raised beds with full mucilage to dry in three stages. After drying for 2-3 days in an open drying space, the lot was moved to a shaded section in order to reach a moisture content of 15%. Then it was moved back to dry all the way down to 11% in the open space again.