Nafuna Site - Uganda

This nanolot is named after Jackie Nafuna, our Field and Processing Officer, in appreciation of her dedicated work.

Jackie began her journey with us as a day laborer and we immediately could see her potential. Now, during the harvest season, Jackie supervises up to 60 workers at the station, ensuring the meticulous sorting, drying and tracking of each batch of coffee. In the off-season, Jackie is tasked with training farmers and collecting data. A few years ago, Jackie purchased her own land and planted coffee, which she now delivers to the station for processing.

Freshly picked, ripe cherries are first pulped, then submerged in water and co-fermented with their own pulp for twenty-three hours. This pulp comes from freshly pulped cherries, not dried cascara. After fermentation, the coffee is dried on African drying beds in our solar dryers and meticulously sorted at 12 different stages before export.