Most Papua New Guinea coffee today is grown by villagers in their neat garden plots, although some coffee continues to be grown on larger farms.
The New Guinea highlands is a region of hugely rugged mountains and steep valleys densely populated by ancient peoples who for thousands of years tended richly productive garden plots in their isolated valleys, along the way developing a complex matrix of subtly differing cultures and distinct languages (over 800 at latest count).
The country, with its high altitudes and lush growing conditions, has tremendous potential as a source of refined and beautiful coffee. It is also a coffee origin in transition, from domination by Australian and European operated farms and mills to domination by village growers organized into cooperatives and other collective entities.
With the right help from the outside they could end up producing a Pacific equivalent of Kenya coffee, less acidy but just as fruity and elegant, along with other less orthodox coffee styles that incorporate some of the serendipitous, earthy beauty of the best traditional coffees of Sumatra.
All our coffee is sold in 200 gm bags and is great value at $12 each.
