The Tablón de Goméz was grown in the communities of Tablón de Goméz and Buesaco in Nariño, Colombia. Our importer partner Caravela collected crops from smallholder farmers in northern Nariño with the end goal of building a coffee with dense, sweet flavors, and confection-like aromas. [new paragraph] In Kenya, washing stations are known as "factories", and a coffee is often named after the factory where it was processed. These play a huge role in the quality of the final product.

At Gatomboya, the coffee fruit is carefully separated from the seeds, washed and then dried. Basically, the coffee is transformed from being a fruit into the dried seed that we roast!

It's common for farmers in Kenya to become members of a cooperative, which will then market and sell coffee on behalf of the whole community. This coffee comes from 1300 members of a cooperative called Barichu. There are actually 5,800 members in the Barichu coop total, but this lot of coffee represents just 1300 of them, and all of their coffee was processed together by Gatomboya.