ETHIOPIA LIMU, Tega-Tula Shishinda

Tega & Tula Specialty Coffee Farm, established in 2000 by Ahadu Woubhset. Ahadu is an entrepreneur who was a founding member of the executive team at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, who left the ECX and decided to invest in a farm himself in order to produce entirely specialty coffee. Every year Tega & Tula Coffee Farm’s lots and the traceability get better. 

Tega & Tula are actually two adjacent farms, named after the two nearby villages of Tega and Tula, found in the woreda, or district, of Gibo, in Kaffa, Ethiopia.The total farm area is 500 hectares in size, with nearly 400 hectares planted in coffee.

The farm is certified organic and produces both Washed and Natural coffees, and it not only has a wonderful flavor profile but also full traceability down to the producer—and nowadays down to the "block," or subplot. 

This coffee’s sublot is called Shishinda and is a 23.96 hecatre sublot located in the Tega farm in the Limu region. Limu is in the western highlands of Ethiopia, a rugged but high-altitude area that experiences relatively temperate weather during the day, but cool nights. The mountains catch the precipitation of the monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean, resulting in a rainy season from June until mid-September.