Description
- Origin: India
- Region: Srirangalli
- Farm: Narmada
- Farmer: Sohan
- Crop: 2023
- Altitude: 800-1200m
- Variety: Arabica 795, 9, Cauveri, Chandragiri
- Processing: Washed
A note from our supplier, This Side Up:
One day, in 2019, the owner of Narmada decided to eliminate chemical fertilising entirely. More than this, he stopped applying chemicals to the coffee plants at his estate. He said, “we are going completely natural” and he wasn’t exaggerating. Together with Sohan, his long-time partner and now manager of the estate, they undertook one of the bravest steps towards natural healing processes we’ve encountered. Their approach is quite radical and, for us, only seen in isolated cases: they allowed wildlife to protect coffee crops by letting nature come forth and grow–pests and bush alike. They expected to see the production decrease significantly at first and some workers left, bewildered by the radical approach, as stem borers and other small pests began feeding on the coffee plants. However, Sohan had patience and did nothing but wait and soon the stem borers settled and decreased. “It can be that by letting scrub to grow wildly the plant is protected. It can also happen that by not killing all the trees, the borers settle and stop seeking new trees to inhabit”. Today, besides successfully converting to organic, setting up soaking ponds and convincing the workers to accept crop damage by wildlife, Narmada is becoming an example of the most natural coffee estates we’ve seen. “This is going to become a wild jungle, with coffee.”
Our coffee comes in craft paper bags which contain a plastic liner on the inside to guarantee freshness of our coffee. Please dispose properly at your local plastic trash container. The Village Coffee is roasted fresh every week, and best consumed within four weeks after roast date. Store your coffee in a dry, dark and cool place, avoid the fridge.
