Sakami AA

This coffees comes from Gloria and Jarmo Gummerus’ farm Sakami in the Trans-Nzoia county in Kenya. On their relatively young farm, the first trees were planted in 2010, Gloria and Jarmo pay a lot of attention to variety separation. Both lots we bought are made up of uniquely SL28.

Around 50 women working in Gloria’s farm having been trying to register as an official group that can leverage the power of the community to create improved accessibility to credit and other resources. Each month they set aside some contribution from each member and will wait until they have reached 10,000 shillings that can be deposited to officially register. Gloria serves as an inspiration for women around her since they see how she conducts her business. Next to this the Sakami farm is creating agroforestry by intercropping macadamia trees between coffee, protecting all indigenous trees in and around the farm, as well as the wetland by not interfering on it, leaving natural bush sections in and around the coffee trees, having beehives around the farm, and avoiding the use of pesticides or herbicides. All "waste" such as coffee pulp and macadamia husks are fed to earthworms and worm castings are returned back to the field as manure or used to make foliar feed. Water from pulping and washing the coffee is treated in a settling pond with lime and then used to irrigate the pasture below the ponds. Next to all this, Sakami uses mineral fertilizers to replace the nutrients taken away when harvesting cherries

We cupped these lots on a big table full of Kenyan coffees and the AA and AB were chosen blind as our first and second preference, so we obviously decided to get both. The AA is a bright blackcurrant bomb with a beautiful umami undertone, while the AB is more syrupy and rich leaning towards blackberry jam.