Bajawa Coffee From Cherry to Cup

Yohanes hosts at the drying beds, where his group grades its own arabica instead of selling wet cherries to collectors.

The Bajawa highlands grow some of Indonesia's most distinctive arabica, and most of it used to leave the village unprocessed. You pick with Yohanes, sort on the bamboo beds, hull and roast a small batch over wood, then cup his lot against a neighbour's so the difference in the work is on the table.

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Meet Yohanes

Highland coffee farmer, Bajawa · Bajawa, Ngada, Flores

Yohanes stopped selling wet cherries to passing collectors in 2016 and now dries and grades with eight neighbouring households. He hosts at the drying beds, not in a cafe, because the work is the point.

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