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Its with great excitement I can announce that CoffeeSnobs FairCrack fund has just helped purchase some coffee processing equipment for the Kilimanjaro farming communities to use.
Jill Adams from the Coffee Academy put me in touch with an amazing lady in Tanzania, Bente Luther-Medoch. *Bente and her husband Ralph Medoch in conjunction with Janet and Jeremy Lefroy took over a very run-down Machare coffee estate and in just 10 years have turned it into an one Tanzania’s great coffee estates. *
The Machare estate was the first Utz Certified farm in Tanzania and it also has Rain Forrest Alliance (RFA) certification. *Not happy with just producing great coffee using good environmental and sustainable practices, Bente Luther-Medoch has coordinated and deployed small hydro-electric generators on the slopes of Kilimanjaro to provide power and proper irrigation for some of the villages. *It’s a great project and one that I thought we should help with so I enquired about it.
Over the last month I have been communicating with Bente and she told me about the next local project that they hope to get off the ground. *In conjunction with the University of Agriculture and the local agricultural officers, Bente hopes to provide sustainability education and information to the small holder farmers and also install small communal use pulperies for their use.
A coffee pulper would be installed in for each village and would be managed and maintained by the villagers themselves. *This would improve the quality of smallholder coffee considerably in the area by giving them direct access to processing equipment that they would be unlikely to install otherwise.
Bente sourced two suitable pulping machines, one with a 600kg per hour throughput and a second larger one with 1200kg /hr capacity. *These will be installed in two villages on the Southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and will allow the small holder farmers to take a far superior grade of coffee to market.
FairCrack has very proudly purchased the two pulpers and provided some additional funds that will be used to buy two sets of weighing scales and fermentation tanks to suit. *100% of the donated funds have hit the ground at origin with 0% gobbled in management and administration fees (It can be done!) *
(edit - the second pulper is going to go into Msuni.
http://coffeesnobs.com.au/faircrack-...d-village.html
Below is the picture of one of the pulpers that Bente sent through today, I’ll update the thread with any information that we get and hope that we can continue to support projects like this that really make a difference on the ground in Tanzania.
Well done CoffeeSnobs, your next Tanzanian coffee might have a certain special sweetness that only you can taste!
8-)
Below image thanks to Bente Luther-Medoch the manager at the Machare Estate / Uru Estate in Moshi, Tanzania - www.macharecoffee.com
Jill Adams from the Coffee Academy put me in touch with an amazing lady in Tanzania, Bente Luther-Medoch. *Bente and her husband Ralph Medoch in conjunction with Janet and Jeremy Lefroy took over a very run-down Machare coffee estate and in just 10 years have turned it into an one Tanzania’s great coffee estates. *
The Machare estate was the first Utz Certified farm in Tanzania and it also has Rain Forrest Alliance (RFA) certification. *Not happy with just producing great coffee using good environmental and sustainable practices, Bente Luther-Medoch has coordinated and deployed small hydro-electric generators on the slopes of Kilimanjaro to provide power and proper irrigation for some of the villages. *It’s a great project and one that I thought we should help with so I enquired about it.
Over the last month I have been communicating with Bente and she told me about the next local project that they hope to get off the ground. *In conjunction with the University of Agriculture and the local agricultural officers, Bente hopes to provide sustainability education and information to the small holder farmers and also install small communal use pulperies for their use.
A coffee pulper would be installed in for each village and would be managed and maintained by the villagers themselves. *This would improve the quality of smallholder coffee considerably in the area by giving them direct access to processing equipment that they would be unlikely to install otherwise.
Bente sourced two suitable pulping machines, one with a 600kg per hour throughput and a second larger one with 1200kg /hr capacity. *These will be installed in two villages on the Southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and will allow the small holder farmers to take a far superior grade of coffee to market.
FairCrack has very proudly purchased the two pulpers and provided some additional funds that will be used to buy two sets of weighing scales and fermentation tanks to suit. *100% of the donated funds have hit the ground at origin with 0% gobbled in management and administration fees (It can be done!) *
(edit - the second pulper is going to go into Msuni.
http://coffeesnobs.com.au/faircrack-...d-village.html
Below is the picture of one of the pulpers that Bente sent through today, I’ll update the thread with any information that we get and hope that we can continue to support projects like this that really make a difference on the ground in Tanzania.
Well done CoffeeSnobs, your next Tanzanian coffee might have a certain special sweetness that only you can taste!
8-)
Below image thanks to Bente Luther-Medoch the manager at the Machare Estate / Uru Estate in Moshi, Tanzania - www.macharecoffee.com
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