{"product_id":"ethiopia-basha-bekele-natural-1","title":"Ethiopia Basha Bekele Natural","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We stopped by Basha’s Bombe drying station on our second day in Bensa in December. Basha’s father—also a community\u003cbr\u003eman who with Basha built a church for the community at their site in Bombe—was once a manager for a co-op in Bombe\u003cbr\u003ethat supplied coffee to the Sidama Union. Before the government made it possible for smallholders to obtain export\u003cbr\u003elicenses, both he and his father sold their cherry to the cooperative. Basha now has his own export license and grows\u003cbr\u003ecoffee (primarily 74158, known locally as “Walega”) in semi-forested plots on 12 hectares in addition to operating\u003cbr\u003ecollection sites in Bombe, Shantawane, and Kokose—collecting cherry from producers growing coffee as high as 2300\u003cbr\u003emasl. While cherry prices were high this year, Basha maintained a practice we didn’t see everywhere: delivering a second\u003cbr\u003epayment to the 126 producers he bought cherry from once the coffee sold. Like most smallholders around Bensa, Basha\u003cbr\u003eexclusively produces dry processes—which includes experiments with anaerobic styles of fermentation—and practices\u003cbr\u003echerry flotation before drying his coffee slowly on raised beds (with some preparations drying under shade). This is our\u003cbr\u003efirst import from Basha.\" - Crop to Cup Importers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\/\/ Jasmine, orange blossom, honey, tangerine, pear, peach \/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACEABLE\u003c\/strong\u003e to 126 registered outgrowers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREGION\u003c\/strong\u003e Sidama Bensa Bombe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVARIETALS\u003c\/strong\u003e 74158 (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWalega)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALTITUDE\u003c\/strong\u003e (MASL) 2200-2300\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lark Coffee Roasters","offers":[{"title":"340g","offer_id":44124293267590,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2lbs","offer_id":44124293300358,"sku":null,"price":54.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/1809\/5471\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-30at2.21.20PM.png?v=1782854661","url":"https:\/\/larkcoffee.ca\/products\/ethiopia-basha-bekele-natural-1","provider":"Lark Coffee Roasters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}