ROYAL GEM ETHIOPIA YIRGACHEFFE 1 WASHED FT-FLO ORGANIC HAFURSA

This coffee is sourced from family owned farms organized around the Hafursa Cooperative located in southern district of Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. The Hafursa Cooperative was established in 1975 and currently has approximately 893 members who produce their coffee on plots of less than 1.5 hectares that are shaded, and intercropped with banana and other nitrogen fixing crops. In 2002, the cooperative joined the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU), an umbrella organization established 2002 to support a sustainable coffee supply from cooperatives in the Gedeo ethnic region of Ethiopia. There are twenty-six other cooperatives affiliated with the YCFCU totaling more than 35,000 members.