About The Cooperative

We understand the need for both transparency and great coffee, which is why we started Kasese Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative as a farmer-driven coffee production model back in 2016. During our first coffee season, we worked with just 50 coffee farmers, we now work with over 1,353 coffee farming families on eleven unique hills within Kasese district, with expansion efforts underway into Rwenzori Region.

To us, coffee and vanilla production is a combined effort that takes into account the needs of coffee and vanilla farmers and the needs of the buyers we work with worldwide. When you trust us with a coffee and vanilla order, not only do you get thoughtfully produced coffee or vanilla, but you directly impact coffee and vanilla farming communities. Beyond that, you have the opportunity to build relationships with specific hills and those who grow coffee and vanilla there, year after year. Coffee holds so much potential. It has the ability to change a landscape and transform people, but it is so easy to feel distant from the origin of your coffee and the impact your purchase makes on coffee-growing communities.

We create traceable micro-lots that yield consistently great coffees while improving the livelihoods of the small-holding farmers who grow them. Here are three of the most important ways we do this:

1. The farmers who grow coffee and vanilla on the eleven hills we work with receive year-round agricultural assistance through one of our six extension workers, who are all well-trained junior agronomists.
2. We do the simplest and best thing we can do for coffee farmers: we pay higher prices for Druga coffee.
3. We strengthen relationships between buyers and farmers so that, if you want, you can buy coffee from a specific hill year after year.

Purchasing our coffee means becoming a part of our team, which is dedicated to making coffee a sustainable part of all of our futures.