🫐 Kenya Hanner Mukunga 🫐

COFFEE INFO:
Grown by: One-woman farmer Hanner Mukunga
Process: Washed
Location: Githunguri, Kiambu, Central Kenya
Varietal: Ruiru 11, SL28
Sourced through: Sucafina

Tastes like: Juicy Blackcurrants, Rhubarb, and Rosehip

Roast: Light Medium

Most suitable for Filter, AeroPress, Cafetiere,

ABOUT THE FARMER:

Hanner Wanjiku Mukunga is a pillar of her community and maintains a seedling nursery to support farm renovations. She also sells seedlings to her neighbours at affordable rates to make it easier for everyone to maintain youthful, productive trees.

The conditions near the Aberdare forest are superb, with extremely high altitudes of 1850-1880 m.a.s.l, perfect for the trees to produce dense, slow growing quality coffee cherries with higher concentrations of sugars and fruit flavours.

Hanner complements these conditions with a focus on quality-oriented processing. Approximately 90% of the trees planted on Mukunga estate are SL28. The remaining trees are Ruiru 11. Most of the coffee trees on the farm were planted in the 1970s and still generate outstanding fruit. Hanner selectively handpicks ripe red cherry and processes it on the estate using her own wet mill. Cherry is pulped, fermented, then washed in clean water and laid to dry on raised beds for around 15 days, depending on conditions at the time.