Ripe coffee cherries spread on raised drying beds at an Ethiopian coffee farm

100% African origin

One Africa.
One Bean.
One Movement.

Direct-trade coffee from African farmers, with the story attached. 100% African origin. Every bag. No exceptions.

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Single-origin Ethiopian coffee for your cup at home. Asili Reserve and Sidama Signature.

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Ethiopian, Ugandan and Tanzanian coffee for roasters, cafes, retailers and importers. Tell us what you need and we will send you a quote.

Also: Ugandan cocoa for importers and processors.

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100% AFRICAN ORIGIN54 COUNTRIESONE STANDARD

Why Kalahari

Direct trade.

We build real relationships with the people who grow the coffee, so more of what you pay reaches them.

The Continental Standard.

If it did not grow on African soil, it does not go in your bag. Fifty-four countries to choose from, and we have never needed a fifty-fifth.

A story in every bag.

Every coffee has a place, a name and a history attached to it.

Behind the cup

From the farm,
by hand.

Cherries are picked when ripe, spread thin on raised beds, and turned by hand through the drying season. Slow, careful work, and a large part of why an origin tastes the way it does.

A grower carrying a woven basket of freshly picked coffee cherries past rows of drying beds — Ripe cherries, carried straight to the drying beds.

A grower emptying a basket of coffee cherries onto a raised drying bed — Sorted and spread by hand, through every day of the harvest.

Coffee cherries drying slowly on long raised beds under the sun — Slow drying under the sun, turned by hand day after day.

Our story

Examining a coffee plant on a farm in Machakos, Kenya

I've spent more than seventeen years living and working in Kenya, Namibia, Lesotho, and Tanzania, and working with coffee farmers across Kenya, Ethiopia, Burundi, and Uganda. Kalahari Coffee Cooperative grew out of that life, not out of a boardroom.

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