Here there! May is an emotional month for me 🇷🇼 always since 2018
I had the amazing opportunity to join the Starbucks Origin Experience visiting Rwanda.
Day 1
Coffee Platation Visit
Warm Welcome with social dance and music
From the seed to the cup, coffee journey starts here
- Seeds
- Butterfly
- Small plant
- Nursey coffee seedling (using lemongrass)
- Cow’s Ceremony
- Cooperative System
- CAFE Practices
- Let’s go harvest a coffee tree (best cherry, perfectly red)
- Wet mill: depulping, fermentation
- African beds wet beans in parchment
- 1-2 days sundried and mixed by women
Day 2
Dry Mill
- Warehouse certified and uncertified coffee
- Moisture until 12% (if more than 12% coffee beans come back to the coffee plantation to be dried more)
- Colour and density check (checking defects)
- Size classification
- Juta bag creation and stamp on it
Genocide’s Memorial
Women’s Cooperative
Day 3
Support Center and cupping
- Met an exporter
- Send a cow
- The Key