Peach Blossom Melody (Nano Challa)local landrace

Nano Challa is a cooperative some of you might have heard of. They used to be part of the Oromia Union (A structure of cooperatives accessing export through an overarching union is mandated with the Ethiopian government). Nano Challa's story actually goes back to the mid 2000's, when 25 farmers formed a cooperative to steward, produce, and sell coffee that represents the oldest and original landraces of the Arabica species. The cooperative was steadily growing through those first years, and then made a leap around 2009/2010 - They began working with Technoserve with the idea of producing washed specialty coffee and accessing a more direct market of specialty coffee roasters.

After Penagos processing equipment mechanically removes most of the fruit and mucilage from the seeds (depulping), the seeds are soaked in water overnight in fibreglass tanks, allowing any remaining sticky mucilage to be broken down by enzymatic activity so that it can be easily washed away from their surface leaving a perfectly clean coffee by the time they hit the drying beds for the eight-plus days they’ll need to dry.