Find out more about the Coffee Garden
As part of a series to highlight the work done by the Coffee Gardens this lot is dedicated to Financial Inclusion and Financial Services. Farmers can access pre-harvest loans and receive a fixed price bonus per kilogram of cherry delivered at the end of the season and in this way can save money.
The Coffee Gardens was established in 2017 with the goal of producing incredible specialty coffee in an ethical way, offering a transparent and direct link between coffee farmers and coffee consumers. At the start of the 2022 season they dismantled their old washing station and rebuilt it a new site to be able to expand their capacity to produce more coffee.
The Coffee Gardens Project has been established for many purposes: to improve farmers’ income and livelihoods, create and provide rural employment, promote gender equality, increase transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain, promote and work on environmental protection in the area and to provide farmer training in Good Agricultural Practises (GAP).
The Coffee Gardens also incentivise and reward farmers in a number of different monetary and non-monetary ways. These include; post-season bonuses, additional income-generating and employment opportunities, tree distribution and a range of all-year-round training programs. The Coffee Gardens is transparent with their partner farmers about buying policy and prices, providing each registered farmer with a contract and a buying-record book, communicating any price changes via SMS to registered farmers, and providing receipts for every transaction.
