CHILDREN OF THE MOON, Ethiopia

Suitable for all brewing methods.

Roasters Notes: Apricot Yoghurt, Honey, Passionfruit

Tucked into Ethiopia’s southern highlands, the smallholders of Kochere cultivate coffee on modest garden plots that weave through the volcanic soils of the Gedeo Zone. Rising between 1,950 and 2,300 MASL, this land grants slow ripening and dense fruit, its canopy held in constant green by the rhythm of gentle rain.

Their harvest finds its way to the Gutity Washing Station in Yirgacheffe, a longstanding centre of labour and livelihood. Here, thousands of smallholders deliver their fruit, each lot assessed and sorted with precision. The station’s lineage includes local stewards such as Birhanu Geda, guiding the work of more than three thousand contributing farmers whose hands sustain this quiet economy.

Among the trees, heirloom varietals endure: ancient landraces and selected JARC lines 74110, 74112, 74165, descendants of wild forests now shaped by altitude and care. They are not singular crops but living archives of diversity, each bearing its own fragment of the region’s inheritance.

This lot was treated through a Carbonic Maceration Natural process. Whole cherries are sealed within oxygen-reduced tanks, where a slow, CO₂-rich fermentation unfolds within the fruit itself. Once released, the coffee is dried intact on raised beds, 2- 3 weeks of patient turning and vigilance. When executed with precision, this method deepens the aromatics and refines structure, yielding clarity without surrendering intensity.

Gutity’s work is strengthened through partners such as Primrose Coffee, whose involvement has expanded both quality control and access to the specialty market.