Washing station · Rwanda

Mwezi Ridge Washing Station

Mwezi Ridge is a washing station that buys cherry from several hundred smallholders around the lakeshore hills of Nyamasheke. Cherry is hand sorted at the station, floated to remove defects, fermented, washed and dried on raised beds for around two weeks. Red Bourbon is the main variety.

Country
Rwanda
Region
Nyamasheke district, near Lake Kivu
Altitude
1,700–2,000 m
Partner since
2018
Coffee drying beds on terraced hills overlook glinting lake water.
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The farm

The people behind this lot.

Mwezi Ridge is a washing station that buys cherry from several hundred smallholders around the lakeshore hills of Nyamasheke. Cherry is hand sorted at the station, floated to remove defects, fermented, washed and dried on raised beds for around two weeks. Red Bourbon is the main variety.

How it is grown

Cherry sorting and flotation, washed, dried on raised beds.

Varieties

Red Bourbon

At the farm

The growing place and the coffee.

Coffee drying beds on terraced hills overlook glinting lake water.
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Roasted beans fall from a scoop into a steel scale tray.
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