The Thirikwa Coffee Farmers Cooperative Society (FCS) has long been recognized as a source of sought after specialty coffees, evinced by the list of globally reputed specialty coffee roasters that have chosen to feature their work over the years, as well as the favorable market reception of their crops— most recently affirmed in March 2024, when coffees from their Gakuyuini factory had been reported as one of the top 3 that garnered the highest auction prices at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange.
The Gakuyuini factory, associated with the Thirikwa FCS, is a wet mill in one of the country’s most known coffee-growing zones, Kirinyaga county in Central Kenya, also known as the Mount Kenya region.
It is the site of processing their member smallholders coffee cherries, whose respective farms within the county are situated amid high altitudes and extensively forested terrains, which are rich in volcanic soil and enjoy moderate temperatures year-round. These beneficial conditions give way to coffee trees that thrive and yield denser cherries with the potential for distinctive and diverse flavors.
Families of the smallholder coffee farmers, tending to no more than five hectares in this locality predominantly grow SL 28 and SL 34 varieties, as they had been working with coffee before the popularization of cultivars Ruiru 11 and Batian. Upon harvest, they bring the cherries to Gakuyuini to maximize their coffees’ flavor potential and subsequently improve their earnings, consequently contributing to their capability to continue cultivating high quality coffee.
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