Roaster’s tasting notes: stone fruit | blackcurrant | melon

Mkulima Kwanza AMCOS is a co-op started in collaboration with Communal Shamba LTD, a social enterprise founded solely by young Tanzanians. The co-op have sought to differentiate by consolidating and streamlining the traditional value chain for smallholder coffee production, as well as through pioneering processing techniques to diversify their offering and open new markets.

This year, Communal Shamba paid the highest coffee cherry price in the region almost 80% higher than the standard local market price. Communal Shamba have engaged in a number of community projects such as rehabilitating the local school and a broad scope health project tackling (including lobbying staffing, clean water storage, computers, refrigeration and sterilizing units).

FARM: Mkulima Kwanza AMCOS
REGION: Mbozi, Mbeya
PROCESSING: Natural/Dry Processed
ALTITUDE: 1350 - 1,700 masl
VARIETALS: Bourbon