Farm info:

The Komothai Farmers Cooperative Society was founded in 1959, and is found bordering the South of the town Limuru, 40km North of Nairobi.  The Kimothai Society consist of 9,951 active members and owns thirteen processing factories.

The Cooperative Society is managed by 13 elected members who form a board, each is elected as a representative of an area and 4 of these members are rotational.

This coffee is from the Githongo wet mill and is a Peaberry, here the red, ripe cherries are handpicked and delivered to the wet mill the same day as being harvested. Once the cherries have been pulped, the parchment is then fermented, washed and sun dried. The coffee is grown in red fertile volcanic soil with patches of loam and black cotton soil. Loam soil is composed of sand and silt with small patches of clay, usually with 40%-40%-20% concentration.

 

 

 

Farmers: 9,951 smallholder farmer members

Varietal(s): SL 28, SL 34 & Ruiru 11

Processing: Fully washed and sun dried on raised beds

Owner: Kimothai Farmers Cooperative Society

Altitude of washing station: 1,750 – 1,800m

Altitude of farms: 1,850 – 1,950m                 

City: Nairobi

Region: Kiambu County