

Today, the number of farmers involved in the group has grown to over 600 smallholder farmers. A relationship with Santiang Exports has allowed the group of farmers in the Kerinci Valley to improve their production from 20 bags to container volumes, as well as quality, by purchasing their own hulling machine, adding ceramic fermentation tanks, larger patios, more raised beds, drying canopies and an Oliver gravity sorting table.

The conservation group directed by the local conservationists who started with a small group of farmers several years ago who at the time produced 20 bags and had to travel up to 3 hours to access a hulling machine, and processing their cherries in large plastic tubs. This area is also a UNESCO World Heritage site, with more tigers than in all of Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and China combined. 7 million people and 10 million hectares of agriculture land rely on water that is sourced in the forested mountains. This park is an area of 5,235 square miles of rainforest, volcanoes, mountains, wetlands and rivers of which provide substantial benefits to agriculture that is highly relied on for income by the community. The Kerinci Valley is surrounded by the Mount Kerinci volcano of the Kerinci Highlands, and the largest National Park in Sumatra, the Kerinci Seblat National Park. Kerinci wet-hulled is supplied by 600 farmers in the Kerinci Valley, a fertile land of rich volcanic soil with over 300,000 people and is known as the "rice bowl". It is rich & big bodied, with an extremely more-ish quality. The Sumatra Mount Kerinci has a really pleasant spicy character (soft notes of cloves & cardamom).

This new lot is just as good as we remember. We had this wonderful coffee in at the Roastery a while ago & loved it at the time. Help save the tigers (read the blurb below)!
