We Nitrogen Flush all of our coffee when bagging for an inert shelf stable environment by locking freshness inside for up to 6 weeks prior to opening
 
 
Region: Coko Sector
Varietal: Red Bourbon
Process: Washed
Altitude: 2147 masl
 
It is very special to be able to get a coffee that is traceable back to a single farm in Rwanda, so we feel extremely fortunate to be able to share this lot from producers Jean Bosco Habimana and Emerthe Nyiramajyambere’s farm, Akanduga-Mbilima.
 
At 50 years old, Jean Bosco has worked in coffee most of his life. His career began as a teenager in the 1980s, when would help at his family’s farm. After the Rwandan genocide and subsequent renewal of the country’s coffee industry, the recently married Jean Bosco started a career at Mbilima washing station in 2004.  At around this time, he also inherited a plot with 52 coffee trees from his parents, which he named Akanduga-Mbilima farm. His diligent work ethic was quickly recognised by Dukunde Kawa, and he went on to become a machine operator in 2005 and eventually the station manager in 2012. Through his income earned as a Dukunde Kawa employee, and from selling his coffee cherry, Jean Bosco has been able to build a house and expand the size of his property, gradually increasnig to the 462 trees he currently owns.
 
Jean Bosco has been farming 100% organically since 2015. He uses manure from their cow to fertilise and has planted beans, potatoes and corn to prevent erosion and keep the soil moist. His wife Emerthe works closely with him on the farm, where she also tends to her own plot of coffee, sold through the Rambagirakawa women’s group. The couple live on the property with their four children, who have been educated using the family’s income earned from coffee and from Jean Bosco’s work at Dukunde Kawa.