🇰🇪 KENYA KALILUNI MACHAKOS

Country: Kenya
Region: Machakos county
Producer: Kaliluni Factory
Elevation: 1700-1900masl
Cultivar: SL-28, Sl-34, Ruiru 11, Batian
Process: Fully washed, dried on raised beds

Notes: Lemon, Cranberry, Plum, Magnolia, Hop

Machakos county is one of central Kenya’s largest, beginning south of Nairboi and spanning northeast along the borders of Kiambu, Muranga’a, and Embu counties, some of Kenya’s oldest coffee producing areas. Machakos is lesser-known than the highly competitive central counties of Kiambu, Kirinyaga, and Nyeri, and while it is commonly known as “Eastern” Kenya, it nonetheless is capable of producing excellent quality coffees, as it contains similar latitudes and elevations to the rest of the central area. Notably, Machakos produces a fly crop as well, so fresh crop coffee in the early fall is possible here.  

Kaliluni Factory is the sole washing station in the Kaliluni Farmer Cooperative Society (FCS). The producer group belongs to the Machakos Cooperative Union, an umbrella organization that represents 28 societies in the county and offers benefits to its member commonly provided by 3rd party service providers elsewhere in Kenya, including dry milling, farmer training, marketing, and subsidized farm inputs like pesticides, fertilizer, and fungicides. Kaliluni is outside Kaliluni town, in the lower Machakos highlands.