Higher in Harmony ETHIOPIA
A celebration of community and collaboration in coffee. From the Ethiopian highlands to the shores of Cornwall and Sussex, and now on Brick Lane for one week only.
With our collaboration, we celebrate the work of Hester, Dawit and the whole community that is Bette Buna, to honour their efforts in building a brighter future for Ethiopian coffee producers and communities.
We’ve chosen to showcase the créme-de-la-créme of Bette Buna’s offering, a 96 hour fermented natural lot from Megadu, Guji. It’s big, it’s fruity, it’s beautiful.
All orders come packed in tins, and will be sold as beans
Buying Standards
It’s really important for us to work with trusted partners in our supply chain who can provide us with honesty and traceability. We have created a set of guidelines to help us source coffee in a way we feel aligns with our values and beliefs.
There are three core categories that we think outline the most important factors to consider when purchasing coffee: economic transparency, social relationship, and environmental efforts.
Carbon Impact
We’ve recently switched to a new electric Typhoon roaster which allows us to significantly reduce our carbon footprint. We selected it for its capacity, efficiency, and to maintain the same high-quality roasting. This transition also marks a step toward our long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral, with a commitment to using 100% renewable electricity
Meet the Producers
For many years now it has been a challenge to find exporters we can trust when it comes to transparency and traceability in Ethiopia, making it hard for us to build relationships and buy meaningful volumes of coffee.
As with all of our Ethiopian coffees this lot comes from the Bette Buna project, run by husband and wife duo Dawit and Hester, whose primary goal in everything they do is their community. Bette Buna works with local chiefs, community leaders, and smallholder farmers to grow and source its
exceptional coffees
Community Impact
The Yallah Buying Standards are a set of criteria to enable us to source coffee in a way we feel aligns with our values and principles. Our impact work in coffee producing regions is directly linked with the communities we purchase coffee from. We want to see those communities prosper in all areas of their life, not just coffee production, and for the benefit of all within the community.
At farms in Taferi Kela Sidamo and Guji Megadu, the team grows seedlings, rewilds coffee forests, and trains farmers in sustainable methods. Founded to honor the legacy of Dawit’s grandparents, Bette Buna carries forward their vision of a house built on coffee, a business rooted in kindness, diversity, and community.
Our Collaboration
Yallah and Skylark have different yet complementary approaches to achieving a shared vision - using coffee as a vehicle to support community wide change in coffee producing regions. That is why we’ve chosen to collaborate at the UK’s biggest coffee festival, to bring our approaches into this shared space, alongside Bette Buna, for a week of festivities.
We’ve chosen to showcase the créme-de-la-créme of Bette Buna’s offering, a 96 hour fermented natural lot from Megadu, Guji. It’s big, it’s fruity, it’s beautiful.
