Ethiopia Shoondhisa Suke (Filter)

Tastes Like:   Coconut ice, sherbet, blueberry

The Suke drying station, nestled in the hills of Shakiso, Guji, was established in 2017. For fives years, before the construction of the Sawana drying station and the Weessi washing station, Suke was the beating heart of Sookoo Coffee. Suke purchases cherries from roughly 35 smallholder farmers to produce Shoondhisa. Unlike Latin America, where farmers can own large estates with thousands of coffee trees, Ethiopian growers typically manage small plots, often harvesting coffee from their gardens alongside subsistence crops. The average Ethiopian farm size is 2.5 hectares, which is larger than the average farm in Colombia. However, the planting density in Ethiopia is much lower, with most production occurring in fully or semi-forested systems. This results in fewer trees per hectare and lower yield per tree (the national average being an astonishingly low 0.8 kg of cherry per tree per year). All cherries delivered to Suke station are organically produced.

REGION: Guji
KEBELE: Suke Qute
WASHING STATION: Suke
ELEVATION: 2,000 - 2,150 masl
VARIETY: Gibirinna 74110 & Serto 74112
PROCESS: Natural