Collection: Tanzania Mbozi Lukululu Peaberry

Lukulu is the name of the is a coffee cooperative located in the Mbozi District of Tanzania, near Lukululu village. Cooperative members receive assistance, like agronomical support, and are a part of the governing body. The cooperative is still a very small operation, producing fully washed coffee using a small hand-crank depulper, with hopes of reinvesting in new machinery for next harvest. Coffee cherry is floated for grade separation before being processed, where unripe coffee floats to the top and is removed. After depulping the outer cherry, the coffee is fermented for 1-2 days in order to break down the sticky fruit mucilage. The remaining fruit is then washed away in channels using clean water, and transported to the raised drying tables, where it takes about 2 weeks to fully dry. They are buying cherry from several of the surrounding villages that cover an altitude range of 1500 to 1700 meters above sea level. Farms are typically less than 2 hectares in size, and farmers are growing mostly Bourbon types.