Kenya - Mwendi Wega Estate (Filter)

Mwendi Wega is an estate and washing station located near the town of Kerugoya, in the Kibingo district of the Kirinyaga region in Kenya's Central Valley. The facility has an average annual production of about 11,000 kilo of coffee that it receives from its own farm and a collective group of nearby farming families. The area has red volcanic soil, supporting the production of SL-28, Ruiru 11, and Batian varieties.

Farmers also plant con and bananas among the coffee. Microlots from Kenya are traceable to either the factory level or individual farm level (when possible), and are selected basis cup score. Because the majority of coffee farmers in Kenya own between 1/8–1/4 a hectare of land, most deliver coffee in cherry form to a local factory for sorting and processing; at the factory, the deliveries are blended and processed into day lots comprising the day' s deliveries. Our green buyer for Kenya typically takes up residency in Kenya during the harvest due to the sheer number of samples to be cupped and selects the best of these lots to purchase as microlots (fewer than 100 bags).