At some of Ethiopia’s most extreme altitudes lies Guji’s Uraga region, a dense, mountainous forest that spans almost a thousand miles. Uraga Woreda of the East Guji Zone is one of the very few sites where coffee is grown above the 2000 masl mark. Towards Northeast Uraga lies the smaller Bire forest, a newer producing area where the coffee trees are young, only four to six years old. Similar to other Guji Coffee Growing Districts farmers in Uraga, they grow their coffee in a complex agroforestry system with legume trees as main canopy trees.

Kerchanshe collects red cherries and places them on raised drying beds to get dried by the sun in an open space. After the cherries dry, they are taken to their Haro Welebu dry mill where the coffee husk is removed. The final products (green coffee beans) are then sent to the Bule Hora main processing unit which is found 300 km South West of Urga