This lot is grown by smallholder farmers scattered across the Wollega Zone of western Ethiopia and channelled for export through Nekemte, the regional trade hub that has given its name - Lekempti - to coffee from the wider area for over a century. Most farms here are small, semi-forest or garden plots tended without synthetic inputs, largely for reasons of tradition and cost rather than certification, meaning much of the region's output is organic in all but paperwork. Cherries from many individual farmers are aggregated at local washing stations before processing, so this lot represents the combined work of a large number of growers rather than a single estate.