04/08/2026
Oops all Uganda sub this month! One washed, one natural, both amazing❤️🔥
Kyabwire Best Coffee Farmers | Kazingo - Rwenzori Mountains
Pineapple | Wine Gum | Raspberry
Uganda
SL 28 | Natural
imported via Intentionally sourced green coffee
The coffees from the Kaybwire communities reflect Semilla and Empaako Collective’s commitment to working with producers at the margins of the global coffee trade. Most farmers in the villages of Nyango, Lwabana, and Kighumu cultivate less than 0.75 acres of coffee, with some managing plots of under 0.25 acres. Individual harvests are often extremely small—sometimes yielding less than 18 kilograms of exportable green coffee—making collaboration and collective processing essential to bringing these coffees to market.
A central role in this effort is played by Kajumba Stella, known locally as Atenyi, who coordinates coffee collection and harvest documentation for eleven producers in the Kaybwire area. Despite limited infrastructure and unreliable internet access, she learned to use digital tools to record deliveries and organize transparent payments, making it possible for Empaako Collective to prepare and export three separate lots during the project's first harvest season.
For many producers, this represents an alternative to long-standing challenges within the local coffee trade. In the past, farmers experienced fraudulent buying practices, including unpaid deliveries, non-transparent pricing, and manipulated weighing scales. Empaako Collective addresses these issues by working exclusively with trusted representatives from within each community, strengthening transparency, accountability, and local participation throughout the supply chain.
Wasawanaba Coffee Farmers | Bwalya - Rwenzori Mountains
Mixed Berries | Grape | Citrus
SL 28 | Washed
imported via Intentionally sourced green coffee
The coffee from the Wasawanaba group comes from eleven smallholder producers led by Hezekiah Sibwira, a coffee farmer and vice chairman of the village of Wasawanaba. Together, the group manages around 12,000 SL28 coffee trees distributed across small farms near the villages of Wasawanaba, Kyomwenda, and Sibahikwa. Despite this collective effort, their entire harvest deliv