Description
About Shantawane
About Shantawane
This coffee comes from a washing station in the town of Shantawane, which collects cherries from a number of small producers in the Bensa area, in southern Ethiopia. Bensa is a district (or woreda) in the Sidama region, well known for producing coffees that are floral, complex, and full of character.
The farmers are mostly smallholders, working family-run plots where coffee grows alongside food crops like false banana (enset) and local
vegetables.
This type of mixed farming is often referred to as “garden coffee”, and the farms are typically small – just 1 to 5 hectares – making the approach both small-scale and environmentally conscious.
