Nepal, Nawalparasi, Baseni

Nepalese farmers tend to grow bananas, paddy, and maize, but with the warmer temperatures these crops haven’t been doing so well. For over ten years now, The Glacier Trust (TGT) together with the project implementing agency, EcoHimal, have supported local farmers in remote Nepali villages in developing innovative, organic and climate conscious farming techniques. The purpose of this is to create stable and better incomes for local farmers, empower and improve the resilience of rural communities especially the women, prevent biodiversity loss, soil depletion, and landslides.

This coffee has never been roasted or brewed in the UK. We’re honoured to be the ones to bring it to you.

Scoring 80/100 by the SCA, this coffee is an incredibly beautiful cup. The coffee was certified organic in 2018, and although farming practices remain the same, the certification is too expensive for the famers to reapply for it.

Notes of raisins, pomegranate, and kaffir lime make this terrifically exciting coffee. We’ve had some beautiful cups via filter and espresso, so it seems to be a good all rounder for brewing methods.

Baseni Village

This is an incredibly special coffee. Grown in the tiny hamlet of Baseni by 6 households, who have tended to this coffee on the slopes in front of their homes, it’s made it’s way along the rugged road to the road to Katmandu and flown out to us.

The village has been growing coffee for 5 years, which is no time at all. For them to be producing such high quality coffee so early on is amazing. We’re excited to see where it’s going to go.

This is the first year they’ve had enough to be able to export. We’re waiting on firm numbers, but this harvest they produced around 400kgs of green coffee and hoping to grow close to a tonne next year.

Visit https://theglaciertrust.org/ for more information on this amazing work!