A beautifully layered natural lot from producer Nafkot Admasu’s 2-hectare farm in Gedicho, Yirgacheffe. Grown at 2,170 MASL beneath native enset trees, the coffee is carefully hand-harvested and naturally dried on raised beds, resulting in a cup that reminds us of peach iced tea, wild berries and tropical fruit. Nafkot is a participant in the Ama (“mother”) Commitment Project, established in 2023 by Ethiopian exporter Ephtah Coffee. The project supports and empowers female coffee producers through pre-financing, agronomic training and investment in farm and community infrastructure.
Nafkot’s farm covers two hectares in Gedicho, Yirgacheffe, at an elevation of 2,170 MASL. She also operates her own processing station on the farm, giving her control over the harvesting and processing of her coffee from coffee tree through to drying.
Nafkot is one of the women participating in Ephtah Coffee’s Ama Commitment Project, which was established to provide practical support to female coffee producers. As part of the programme, Ephtah provided new mesh drying beds, allowing Nafkot to dry her coffee more slowly and evenly and helping improve both quality and consistency.
Ephtah also provides Nafkot with pre-financing, paying her 80% of the expected value of her cherries in advance. This gives her the cash flow needed to pay seasonal workers immediately during harvest, rather than waiting until the coffee has been sold.
The project extends beyond coffee production. Through its Ama Commitment Income Diversification Scheme, Ephtah has established a shop where participating women can sell handicrafts, as well as a day-care centre around 3km from the town of Gedicho. Farmers involved in the project also cultivate native banana trees to produce kocho, a traditional local food product. Together, these initiatives are designed to provide additional sources of income and support the wider livelihoods of the women and their communities.
Nafkot employs five permanent staff and around 190 seasonal workers during harvest. Nafkot is not officially certified organic, largely due to the cost of certification, but maintains organic farming practices on the farm.
During harvest, ripe cherries are selectively hand-picked and floated to remove underripe, damaged and defective fruit, as well as any foreign material. The whole cherries are then laid out on raised drying beds, where they are dried slowly for 12–15 days.
The coffee is carefully managed throughout drying to promote even moisture loss before being stored in Nafkot’s on-site warehouse. Once ready for export, it is transported to a dry mill in Addis Ababa before travelling by rail to Djibouti for export.
This coffee was harvested between November 2025 and January 2026 and arrived in the UK in July 2026. We purchased it through Covoya, who work directly with Ephtah Coffee. It is the second coffee we’ve sourced from Ephtah (the first being Summer Punch). We were particularly drawn to Nafkot’s coffee for its vibrant stone fruit and berry profile, as well as the opportunity to support the Ama Commitment Project. We hope this is the beginning of a long-term relationship with Ephtah and the producers they work with.
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