This coffee comes from Muje Mesina washing station in East Guji. It’s operated by Primrose Coffee, a family-run exporter working with nearly 2,000 smallholder farmers in the area, whose farms (sitting between 1,950–2,050 MASL) surround the village of Muje — a thriving coffee-growing community. Tropical and juicy, this coffee is the ultimate summer thirst-quencher.
Husband-and-wife duo, Abreham Mengiste and Meseret Workneh, founded Primrose in 2010 after decades of experience working in coffee. They now have a team of 60 permanent employees and operate eight washing stations in Yirgacheffe and Guji, where they work with over 2,000 farmers.
Muje Mesina spans 3 hectares and has 200 shaded drying beds. According to Primrose, producers are paid immediately upon delivery of their cherries (above-market prices). Primrose then pays post-harvest premiums at the end of the year based on cherry quality and quantity. Primrose has also implemented initiatives to improve the livelihoods of local coffee producers and their families, including building two wells to provide clean, safe drinking water.
Coffee is selectively hand-picked before being delivered to the washing station. After delivery the cherries are subjected to thorough hand sorting, as well as flotation in clean water to separate less dense, lower quality cherries. The selected cherries are then dried on raised beds for 15-18 days. During the daytime they are raked and turned periodically to ensure a consistent drying process; then covered between 12pm and 3pm to protect the cherries from sun damage, and again overnight to protect them from rainfall and moisture. Moisture and water activity is measured throughout the drying process, which determines when the drying process is complete. At this point the coffee is rested for around 1 month, then milled, graded and sorted in Addis Ababa, before being bagged in GrainPro bags for export from the port of Djibouti.
We purchased this coffee from the importer, Covoya, when it landed in the UK in June 2025. The coffee was exported by Primrose.
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