Kaganda AB

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya

Tasting notes

Founded in 1970, Kaganda Coffee Factory is now owned by the Kaganda Farmers Cooperative Society, representing around 1050 members. The washing stationWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee. is located in Murang’a County in Murarandia, Central Kenya Province, at 1800 masl, and covers just over 5 acres. SmallholdersSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. from the surrounding villages of Gathiru, Gathaithi, Gathambara, Gatuongo, and Kagaa deliver harvests of Kenya’s signature SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. and SL34SL34SL28's sibling selection, also from Kenya's Scott Labs. Slightly less celebrated but hardier, with a similar juicy, complex cup. varietals to the factory, where they are combined into a daily lot, each typically comprising cherries from hundreds of producers.