Description

Region: Numura and Timuza Villages, Kainantu district, Eastern Highlands
Farm: Smallholder farm member of Namura Timuza Coffee Cooperative
Variety: Arusha, Typica, Mundo Novo
Altitude: 1400-1600 masl
Process Method: Washed

The Cup: “Smooth and tart with caramelized sugar, citrus fruit and praline flavors.”

Namura Timuza cooperative is an organic-certified group of 200 smallholder farmers from the area surrounding the villages of Namura and Timuza in the Kainantu district of Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands. The organization was founded in the 2010s and represents about 265 hectares of coffee farmland centralized around those two villages but including eight other small villages nearby. The organization entered a national cup competition in 2016 and took first place. Producer members of this cooperative, like many coffee farmers in Papua New Guinea, grow coffee in “gardens” where they also produce sustenance crops for their families. Coffee is a major cash crop in this area. The coffee is hand-picked an