Kirinyaga & Nyeri

In the smallholder sector, harvesting is carried out by careful hand-picking when the coffee cherries are perfectly ripe and delivered to farmers' wet mills the same day. The cherries are sorted to ensure only the best are used and inferior quality cherries are removed. The pulping, fermentation, and washing process is meticulously monitored, before the parchment is moved to drying tables for slow sun-drying on the famous African beds. Here it is turned regularly and protected from the midday sun. When the coffee has been properly dried and conditioned, the cooperative moves it to the dry mill, where the coffee is sorted.