Niguse Jilo
How we source our coffee
Direct relationships and importers we have worked with for years. We pay above the Fairtrade floor on every lot and publish what we paid in our impact report.
delivery & returns
Royal Mail - Tracked, Free on orders over £28. Something wrong with a bag? Tell us and we will replace it.
storage & freshness
Keep the bag sealed, out of the light, at room temperature. Not the fridge. Best within a month of the roast date for espresso, six weeks for filter.
About Niguse Jilo
Ethiopia Niguse Jilo is a single-farm natural from Halo Bariti village in Yirgacheffe, where Niguse Jilo grows the Kurume varietal at 2,150 masl. Kurume is one of Ethiopia’s many landrace varieties, native to the highlands rather than bred for yield.
Niguse inherited the farm from his family and has stayed committed to specialty coffee, which supports his ten children. He’s a lead farmer in the Bore Nageso farmer group, and in 2022 his coffee placed in the top 40 at Cup of Excellence. He works with Mecota Trading, an Ethiopian exporter set up in 2023 to group smallholder microlots into exportable quantities without losing track of who grew them. It’s a direct alternative to the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, where coffees are often pooled and their origins lost.
This is a natural process lot, dried whole in the cherry for a sweeter, fruit-forward cup. Expect notes of honey, parma violets, and nectarine.
Celebrating 10 Years of social impact through coffee.
We roast in London and run cafés across the city. The business and the Employment Programme are the same thing: every bag, wholesale account and flat white funds training and paid work for people who have experienced homelessness.
