Coffee & Kayanga TZ

The ultimate goal of Up & Up Coffee is to buy directly from the farmer or local co-op. This is not the easiest thing to do, but we are determined to keep working towards this goal. We want to bring as much assistance to the local community as possible through direct business relationships... so here is a little bit of an insight into what it takes to accomplish this.

We were in Kayanga, TZ this past week meeting with local coffee farmers and researching the local farming and processing practices.

Here's a few pic's...

Meeting with the chairman of a local co-op. He helped navigate us through the coffee buying process in TZ and also supplied us with some samples of local Arabica.


We were in the country side most of the day visiting small farms. We stopped at a local pastors house for tea, andazi's and some roasted goat... once again a classic Cooper face!


Touring a local coffee processing factory with our friend Pastor John.



Filming the cleaning process.


Meeting with a group of local coffee farmers... very informative!



Headed to Rwanda to meet more farmers! We are standing over the river that separates Tanzania and Rwanda... the waterfall behind us was huge!!

Compassion = Action,

-Travis