Coffee Description
Purchased from our friends at Swiss Water's Limited Series, and packaged in Grain Pro for extended enjoyment. We are proud to offer one of the finest decaf programs out there.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Natural
Elevation
1500-2000 masl
Region
Other
About Tuvembukene Womens Cooperative of Rwanda
In Rwanda, where women make up the majority of coffee labor, a cooperative of 30 women in Rubavu, Western Province, banded together in 2015 with a meaningful goal. Naming their cooperative Tuvemubukene, meaning “to get out of poverty”, the women organized a structure with a focus on improving cash flow and income stability to support one another across the cooperative and break the cycle of agricultural poverty known to so many here.
By supplementing their coffee-growing income with diversified revenue streams like basketmaking and clothing, the women of Tuvemubukene began a new cycle for their members—one of better income and self-sufficiency—that has grown through the years. Now with more than 65 members, the Tuvemubukene Women’s Cooperative is becoming known for both quality coffee and a socially sustainable approach to coffee in this region.
Coffees from the Co-op are delivered to the Nyamyumba washing station, which accepts only cherry at peak ripeness. Coffee here is sorted before being sun-dried on raised beds, then sorted again.
Rwanda
Kuma Coffee
2008 was a very good year in Seattle, because that’s when Kuma Coffee came on the scene. It started as a guy in his garage with a 2 kilo roaster, roasting for friends and family and has grown to a 4 person wholesale roastery working their magic on a Loring Kestrel 35k.
Kuma has won numerous awards over the years, but they’re most proud of the sourcing relationships they’ve forged the world over. “We want to do real, honorable work that is about the quality of the product we make, and not about everything else. There is so much distraction in our industry, it’s often about everything but the product.”
At Kuma, they love creating real products with honest values, that have a positive impact for all people in the chain. One of their overarching goals is to help people to start caring more about the quality of all the products they use in their lives, especially things like food, and you guessed it—COFFEE!
