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The Story:
This coffee is grown around the town of Aleta
Wondo (also known as Wendo) in the Sidamo Region of Ethiopia,
some 200 miles south of Addis Ababa and near the Kenyan
border. Of the Ethiopian growing regions - Harrar, Yirgacheffe,
Sidamo, Limu and Jima - the Sidamo region is the farthest
south, in a fertile and forested area near Lake Abaya, not
far from the sources of the Ganale Dorya and Dawa Rivers.
About 1000 farmers have banded together around
the town of Aleta Wondo to , which is a sub-coop of the
Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. Gerbichu coffees
are considered to be among the best in the region and, for
example, placed in the top 10 in the 2005 and 2006 Ethiopia
eCafe Gold competition.
Like most Ethiopian coffees, the coffee from
the Gerbichu Lela Coopit is an heirloom varietal, grown
in the shade of trees, and grown without the use of agricultural
chemicals. It is processed by the dry or "natural"
processed method, meaning the beans or seeds were dried
inside the coffee fruit rather than dried after the removal
of the fruit residue.
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