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 Natural processed microlot, only 5 bags were produced. Cherries delivered from only two of the northernmost communities on Mt Elgon (Yilwanako-Mayiyi and Buginyanya) are used in this microlot. They're carefully assessed to ensure uniformity/consistency of ripeness and a BRIX score of 18 of higher and are dried on raised beds to 10% moisture content.