Key Origin Info:

Producer: Bette Buna and independent farmers in the Megadu community

Region: Megadu, Guji
Altitude: 1900 - 2200 masl

Variety: Local landrace, JARC74110 and 74112
Process: Washed; sorted, de-pulped, fermented in tanks, washed and dried on raised beds

Exporter: Bette Buna | Importer: Falcon Speciality

Cup profile: Silky body, jasmine, apricot & brown sugar

Purchase history: Since 2025

We are excited to be roasting Bette' Buna’s coffees for the second season this year and have selected a number of delicious microlots to share with you, starting with this exceptional washed lot. As they are renovating trees and transitioning to build their own wet mill at Taferi Kela farm, this year’s washed lot comes from the Megadu community with cherry sourced from their independent farmer network and processed together with producer Hassan Ware using Bette Buna’s signature washed method. For this process, ripe cherries are selected before pulping. After pulping, the coffee is fermented and washed to remove the remaining mucilage from the parchment. The washed parchment is then dried according to the required lot specifications, with regular handling used to support even drying and maintain separation from other lots.

More about Bette Buna and their sites - Taferi Kela and Megadu:

Bette Buna literally translates to “Home of Coffee” and their work includes acting as an exporter as well as operating two farms & processing sites - in Taferi Kela, Sidama and Megadu, Guji, and perhaps most importantly being a pillar in their communities, using quality coffee as a tool for inclusive local development.

As they describe themselves, they are a coffee company that grows coffee and opportunities. Committed to building opportunities for everyone in their community Bette Buna operate their own farm in Taferi Kela as a “living classroom” where farmers can come learn first hand about agronomy, soil health, tree stumping and renovating, harvesting and more. All with the aim to help farmers achieve better yields, better quality and turn better income from their coffee. Through demonstration plots, training and shared experience, the programme focuses on improved farming practices, agroforestry renovation and stronger decision-making at farm level. Over the next two years, Bette Bunna’s programmes aim to reach more than 3,500 farming families. A key part of the Taferi Kela farm is their seedlings nursery employing a permanent local team and producing over 350,000 coffee seedlings of quality varieties every year along with a range of shade trees supporting agroforestry systems.

Alongside their farm and nursery in Taferi Kela, Better Buna also operate another farm and processing site in Megadu area within the Guji region. As this is culturally a very different region, the site here is run in partnership with the local community leaders and farmers to manage and harvest coffee from shared land with cherries processed at the Megadu site. This structure is designed to keep knowledge, responsibility and value within the producing communities.

Bette Bunna also supports social projects and entrepreneurship programmes designed to help farming families develop additional income streams and strengthen community resilience beyond coffee.

We are excited to be working with Bette Buna for the second year and bring you a range of their exceptional coffees and also support some of their impactful projects such as the Kids Clubs in Taferi Kela!

Bette Buna is committed to building opportunities for everyone in their community. They teach farmers how to improve their soil to have healthier trees, and harvest ripe cherries to get better prices for quality cherries. To help renovate farms with unproductive old trees, they’ve established a coffee nursery and distribute more than 350,000 healthy seedlings every year to growers. These seedlings are climate-change adapted varietals, and on average the farmers who plant them make minimum $2 per year per seedling once the trees are grown. This means an economic impact in the area of more than $650,000 a year in a region where the average household income is less than $50 per month for an average family size of 9 people.