<p>Tasting notes: Chocolate, toffee apple, hazelnut.</p> <p>Coffee has been grown on Sable Farm in Southern Malawi for over 30 years alongside dairy and macadamia nuts. Sable Farming Company Ltd. is the only existing incorporated coffee producer in Malawi.</p> <p>Just a little smaller than Mississippi, Malawi is a landlocked country and yet is home to over 400 miles of lakefront land. One third of Malawi is taken up by Lake Malawi, one of the world's deepest lakes, reflecting the altitudes that borders its shores. Coffee first came to Malawi in 1878 and was grown by both local farmers and Europeans but production and exports were nominal until the 1950s when the government distributed seeds in an effort to encourage an increase in cash crops for export. This effort was primarily focused on farmers in the northernmost highlands on the border with Tanzania the Misuku Hills. Enough small farmers started growing coffee that in 1957 the formers the Misuku Coffee Growers Cooperative Society, which is still in operation today. </p> <p>Like Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and eastern Zambia, Malawi is part of the East African Rift Valley which, geologically and as far as coffee is concerned, means ideal altitudes and volcanic soil. in addition to the many smallholder farms of the Misuku Hills in the highlands of northern Malawi above the shores of Lake Malawi, there are a handful of larger estates in the south on what explorer Dr. Livingstone dubbed the 'Shire Plateau.' The small coffee farmers of central and northern Malawi have a long traditional of farming cooperatives or unions of farmers. Compared to tobacco, sugar and tea, coffee product has always been small, less than 5% of exports, but that number is growing as a focus on quality processing for the specialty market increases and farmers are incentivised by better prices. </p> <p>Origin: Malawi </p> <p>Subregion: Mangochi, Southern Malawi</p> <p>Harvest season: 2023/2024</p> <p>Farm name: Sable Farm</p> <p>Processing: Washed</p> <p>Varieties: Batman, Catimor 129, Caturra, SL28</p> <p> </p> <!---->

<p>Burka coffee estate was founded in 1899 by German settlers just outside the town of Arusha in Northern Tanzania. The neighbouring Selian estate was established in 1910 and acquired by Burka in 1991. The first coffee trees were planted in 1918 and now number some 1.3 million, mostly shade-grown varietials. 314 acres are reserved for forests and a further 250 acres to natural grasslands. There are around 200 permanent staff at Burka, a further 200 casual daily staff and up to 5000 temporary staff involved in the picking and sorting at the height of the harvest season. All permanent staff are provided with housing on the estates with salary set at least 20% above minimum government requirements. <br>Staff have social security and labour union membership included in their contracts and an estate credit union also offers loans and advice for education, health and house construction. Each estate has its own nursery which educates over 100 children and two primary schools cater for over 600 children from the estate workers and neighbouring communities. An on-site health centre with nurse and dispensary is available for all staff and the estate has its own ambulance along with shops, sports facilities, churches and a mosque. Regular inter-estate football and netball matches occur along with staff BBQs and other holiday celebrations. Workers are supplied with free firewood from stumped coffee trees and fruit and nut trees are grown around the staff villages. <br>The staff at Burka have a combined wealth of agronomist experience and over the course of many decades the estate has built a reputation for consistent production of fine arabica coffees characterised by mild acidity with flavours of lemon, chocolate and caramel.</p> <p>Origin: Tanzania</p> <p>Subregion: Arusha</p> <p>Harvest season: 2023/24</p> <p>Farm name: Burka and Selian Estates</p> <p>Processing: Natural/dry processed</p> <p>Altitude: 1350m - 1500m</p> <p>Varieties: Blue Mountain, Kent, KP423, N39, Red Bourbon</p> <p> </p> <!---->

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