Ruli (New), Rwanda (250gm)

Out of all the coffee we source, few offerings make an impact as significant as our women’s coffee microlots from Rwanda, as they are key in securing financial independence to countless women across the country. This special offering was produced using coffee cherry grown by 136 women who own small farms in the hills surrounding Ruli washing station, the largest and busiest of three washing stations owned by the Dukunde Kawa Cooperative.

Unlike most coffee-producing countries, where a farmer’s land size is used as a measure of scale, farms in Rwanda are often very small, and as a result production capability is measured by the number of trees a farmer tends to. The majority of women who contributed to this lot own a couple of hundred trees, planted on one tenth of a hectare of land, along with subsistence food crops like maize, beans and sorghum and livestock like cows, goats and chickens.