Ethiopia Suke Quto

by PPP Coffee

Country/Region: Ethiopia/Guji Varietal: Welicho Kurume Processing: Fully-Washed Elevation: 1850 - 2200 m.a.s.l. We Taste: Nectarine, White Florals, Citrus “I don’t consider myself to be a coffee farmer, because coffee is everything to me. All my time and energy are placed into the beans that I harvest and process.” Tesfaye Bekele, the founder of Suke Quto Farm, explains. Suke Quto has been one of our long-term coffee partners since 2014, and with each harvest we are reminded yet again of Tesfaye's story.   Tesfaye Bekele is one of the people that put Guji coffee on the world map. Having worked in a government role to protect the environment and natural resources, he saw first-hand how large bushfires destroyed forests from 1997 to 1999. Tesfaye sought to rebuild the area, which was dominated by cattle farms.  Having come from a coffee-producing family, he proposed the idea of replanting forest with coffee trees to enhance diversity. Distributing seedlings with a pickup truck, he was