Kamacharia Cooperative
Riakiberu is a washing station in Murang'a County, on the slopes of the Aberdare Range, built around a cooperative that's been running since the early 1960s. Around 1,300 smallholder farmers deliver cherry here, growing coffee alongside tea, maize, beans, and keeping livestock and beehives, a working agricultural community rather than a single-crop one. The factory itself was established in 1994 and manages everything from grading and payments to farmer support in-house.

SL28 & SL34
The two varieties that define Kenyan specialty. Both were developed by Scott Agricultural Laboratories in the colonial era, selected for yield and drought resistance, and ended up producing some of the most distinctive cup profiles in the world. At 1,650 masl in rich red volcanic soil, with cool nights slowing cherry development, they have exactly the conditions they need.

Fully washed
Cherries are hand-harvested, depulped, fermented in water tanks, and thoroughly washed, the classic Kenyan method, designed to strip everything back and let the variety and terroir speak clearly. It's a process that rewards precision at every stage, and when it's done well, as it is here, the result is exactly what Kenya is known for: bright, structured, and unmistakably itself.