Thiriku Coffee Growers Coop Society is a group of 1770 small-holding farmers in Nyeri. Frustrated by the conventional way coffee is traded in Kenya, the Coop approached Trabocca a couple of years ago in the hopes of developing a partnership. Trabocca have been instrumental in securing high quality and traceable coffee in Ethiopia and are now working in a similar way in Kenya. Coffee in Kenya has long been traded through an auction system where the bigger participants in the market have an advantage and many farmers and buyers are prevented from opportunities for real partnership and collaboration. Trabocca are seeking to disrupt this and align farmers and buyers in pursuit of higher quality coffee with the associated premiums reaching the farmers and the Coop, benefitting all involved. Trabocca have helped with agronomy training, advice on processing, and delivering the premium warranted by the quality of coffee Thiriku are delivering. Trabocca have also managed to garner the support from roasters around the world for their project and we are pleased to be one of the buyers for this year's crop. See trabocca.com for more information about the work they are doing to help improve coffee quality and traceability.

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We source and roast coffee from single farms, estates and cooperatives. When we taste a coffee that we like, we want to know where it comes from and who grows, picks and processes it. We travel extensively throughout the year, visiting the producers and cooperatives with whom we currently work and looking for interesting varietals of coffee and new farms from which to buy. During these visits we talk to farmers and cooperative members, learning more about the coffee they grow and process and the challenges that they face. We then look to establish a relationship with the grower and exporter of that coffee. We believe that where such a relationship exists, quality, quantity and price requirements can be discussed in an open and equal way. We see this as sustainable, fair and equal trade.

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