About This Coffee
Nensebo District is found 385 km south of Addis Ababa and 135 km from Shashemenne, the capital of the West-Arsi Zone. Werka is the administrative center of the district. Nensebo is located at 6°35′ N and 39°10′. Located at the southern West periphery of the West Arsi, the site is characterized by mountain land scape . Nensebo is one of the finest coffee hubs in Ethiopia and where our Bale mountain coffee farm is located.. Bale mountain coffee farm is a shade coffee plantation established in 2013.The farm is found at an altitude of 1900-2000 masl. The coffee is planted at 2.5 X 2.5m spacing. When the coffee plants attain a height of about 0.5 m or at age of 6-9months; we bent it in an east to west direction to initiate multiple branches from which the lowest and most healthy 2 are selected and maintained together with the original plantlet. This ensures higher yield and profitability per tree. They use cultural method like mulching, pruning and intercropping. Continuous de-suckering of the coffee plants is highly practiced. Large indigenous trees have been used as shade cover for the farm. The canopies provide shade thus (mitigating against excessive temperatures and heat stress) while the litter fall is the main source of soil organic content. Shade trees are also the main source of soil nitrogen as most of them are legume tree species. They protect the seedling of these indigenous trees so that natural regeneration could take place. The coffee from the farm has been processed naturally. The sundried cherries are get hulled at a dry mill. Bale Mountain farm owns the dry mill located within the farm.
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Coffee Details
- Type
- Single Origin
- Process
- Natural
- Roast Level
- Light
- Origin
- 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
- Varieties
- Ethiopian Landrace
- Altitude
- 1,900-2,000m