Kenya - Gloria Special Washed - Direct Trade

Gloria has served as an inspiration for women around her for years as they see and fully respect how she conducts her business.

Next to her farm they are creating an agroforestry area by intercropping macadamia trees between coffee, protecting all indigenous trees in and around the farm.
As well as this they are protecting the nearby wetland by not interfering on it, leaving natural bush sections in and around the coffee trees, having beehives around the farm, and avoiding the use of pesticides or herbicides.

All "waste" such as coffee pulp and macadamia husks are fed to earthworms and worm castings are returned back to the field as manure or used to make foliar feed.

Water from pulping and washing the coffee is treated in a settling pond with lime and then used to irrigate the pasture below the ponds. Next to all this, Gloria uses mineral fertilizers to replace the nutrients taken away when harvesting cherries.