The Story
 
Tarkegn Gutu comes from a family of coffee farmers based
in the village of Tulise. He inherited a half hectare from his
father in 2010 and since then, Tarkegn has kept acquiring
and contracting additional coffee farms.
As of the 2019/20 cropping season, Tarkegn Gutu owns a
total of 4.8 hectares. He is one of the few young coffee farmers
in the area who puts a lot of time and energy on coffee
agronomy and processing to produce high quality coffee lots.
His garden coffee production system is characterized by
coffee trees grown near the home under light shade from
perennial trees like Albizia and intercropped with root
crops and Enset (false banana). The farms are located on
a higher altitude coffee growing area in Yirgacheffe where
coffee harvesting usually starts late in November as compared
to the majority coffee growing areas in Gedeo where harvesting
usually starts in October.
The combined and interrelated effects of high altitude,
superior coffee varieties, coffee processing technique and
the micro/macro climatic conditions result in a beautifully
complex coffee.