Owned by a young energetic Mutai Kinyua, this farm is located in Nkubu town - this is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya within Meru county. It falls in one of the most fertile and best-watered parts of Africa with tea, coffee and dairy farming as the main economic activities.

Kinyua is an enthusiastic and outgoing young producer who has slowly worked to revive the family coffee farm and taken every opportunity to learn new technologies and processing methods to keep elevating his coffee quality. A complex coffee,  bursting with blueberry notes, floral aromas to the nose and milk chocolate. Delicate body and a balanced structure overall.

This exciting coffee is a long time collaboration in the making between our founder Vava Angwenyi and Mutai Kinyua.

Altitude: 1500 - 2100 m above sea level 
Production area: 10 acres
Number of trees: 10,000
Growing Practices: Shade trees, terraces. 80% organic, 20% conventional 

Typical profile: Cup score 83.5 - 85
Coffee varieties: Ruiru 11, Batian

About Vava Coffee

Founded by Vava Angwenyi, Vava Coffee is a Certified B-Corp with a social enterprise business model that has a network of coffee producers in different regions of East Africa. Vava Coffee exports, roasts and consults on coffee value chains, the company aims to contribute to better future prospects for coffee communities and the industry as a whole. We are geared towards sustainable livelihoods for the people and communities we work with. 

Vision

Our vision is to challenge the status quo and promote positive social disruption within the coffee industry.

Mission 

Located in the picturesque Kajiado county inhabited by the calm yet courageous Maasai community, we work in this atypical coffee growing region to influence and transform communities by providing economic empowerment opportunities using coffee - we do this through trade, education and capacity building with a sharp focus on elevating the opportunities for women and girls in these communities.

Order our book and prints!

Coffee Milk Blood is a project and book inspired by my own experience as an African woman in the industry and the theme of the book touches on appropriate storytelling/depiction of producers - how we want to be seen beyond the coffee and as women, the African woman, the culture of the place as well as underpinnings of Colonialism that are the structures we still operate within in our industry. The book of which we are putting out the main version and limited edition will be a tool the industry needs especially challenging the visual context we often see of coffee origins/producing countries and the faces behind the coffee.