Datura - Guji Shakisso Hadeso Natural

Hadeso is located in the Shakisso woreda, an administrative district in the Guji Zone of southern Ethiopia, near the village of Hadeso from which it takes its name. The coffee comes mainly from farms around Dambi Uddo, where coffee is grown at elevations reaching 2,100 metres above sea level; around 500 smallholder farmers deliver freshly picked cherries to Hadeso, a station established in 2017 by Testi Coffee, one of twenty washing stations the family-owned company manages across Ethiopia.Each day, only the ripest cherries are selectively hand-picked and hand-sorted a second time to remove any underripe, overripe or damaged fruit, then separated by density and spread in thin layers across raised drying tables; as the cherries reach roughly 25 percent moisture, the "raisin stage," the layers are gradually deepened, with beds shaded at midday and covered at night, reaching target moisture after 15 to 18 days.