{"product_id":"ethiopia-chira-community","title":"Ethiopia Chira Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgaro is one of the oldest coffee relationships our importer has anywhere in the world, going back to 2008. It sits in western Ethiopia, in the Jimma Zone, where the harvest comes in earlier than almost anywhere else in the country. This lot pulls from two neighboring districts there, Agaro and Gera, and lands as a regional washed coffee rather than a single farm or station.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name points to the people behind it. Chira is the main town of the Gera district, the community at the center of where this coffee is grown. Gera itself is heavily forested, more than half the district is woodland, which is the kind of shade-grown environment that gives coffee here its character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat that means in practice is a lot of hands. Hundreds of smallholder farmers grow coffee on small plots around Chira and the surrounding districts, often just a couple of hectares each, much of it among that shade and forest. Their cherry is brought together through the Kata Muduga cooperative union, the kind of structure that lets small growers pool their harvest, reach specialty buyers, and get paid for quality rather than volume. A generation ago these same coffees left the region as undifferentiated naturals. The washing stations that changed that are now close to twenty years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWashed processing is the throughline. Ripe cherry is pulped, fermented, and washed to strip the fruit away from the seed before drying, which is the method that gives a coffee like this its clarity. It is also what lets the lighter, more aromatic side of Ethiopia's native landrace varieties step forward instead of getting covered up. Our importer holds rights of first refusal and first shipment in Agaro, so this crop was milled and on the water early, and it came to us through their Continental, New Jersey warehouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight roasted to keep all of that intact, this is starfruit and lemongrass with a crisp, citric lift, a round and tea-like body, and a soft cake donut sweetness on the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smallholder farmers, Kata Muduga cooperative union\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Agaro and Gera, Jimma Zone, Ethiopia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAltitude:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1,900 to 2,100 MASL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVariety:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ethiopia Landraces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProcessing Method:\u003c\/strong\u003e Washed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frothy Monkey Coffee Roasters","offers":[{"title":"12oz Bag \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":53986565783916,"sku":"CHIRA-12OZ-WB","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12oz Bag \/ Drip \/ Pour-Over","offer_id":53986565816684,"sku":"CHIRA-12OZ-DRIP","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12oz Bag \/ Fine (Espresso)","offer_id":53986565849452,"sku":"CHIRA-12OZ-FINE","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12oz Bag \/ French Press","offer_id":53986565882220,"sku":"CHIRA-12OZ-FRENCH","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12oz Bag \/ Cold Brew","offer_id":53986565914988,"sku":"CHIRA-12OZ-CB","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5lb Bag \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":53986565947756,"sku":"CHIRA-5LB-WB","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Case of 6 \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":53986565980524,"sku":"CHIRA-CASE","price":132.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0889\/8029\/1948\/files\/ethiopia-chira-community.png?v=1783024696","url":"https:\/\/frothymonkeycoffee.com\/products\/ethiopia-chira-community","provider":"Frothy Monkey Coffee Roasters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}