Etiopia Mi’eessa Robe

We have been working with Sookoo’s founder, Ture Waji, since our earliest days sourcing coffee in Ethiopia. Ture and his brother, Assefa, founded Sookoo (legally, Dambi Uddo Agro Industry) in late 2018/early 2019. In that same harvest, Osito delivered to Dambi Uddo their very first registered purchase contract.

Ever considering ways to pursue existing relationships in deeper/more meaningful ways, a few years ago we asked Ture to start considering farmers that were delivering cherry to his station in large enough volumes that we may be able to keep their cherry separate and, thus, have single farmer lots, dried by the Sookoo team. The goal was to identify producers that would have historically delivered to Shoondhisa or Bookkisa, the two community lots Osito considers foundational to our work with Sookoo.

For the third consecutive year, we are fortunate to purchase two such lots from Sookoo, including this coffee from Mi’eessa Robe. We are very thankful to Ture and Sookoo Coffee for doing this extra work which many producers would consider frivolous.

Mi’eessa farms eight hectares that range in elevation from an incredibly high 2,000 masl to a jaw dropping 2,350 masl. He inherited his farm from his parents and has been a coffee farmer his entire life.

Mi’eessa is 48 years old and is married with seven children (three boys and four girls).