The filter roast from the Nova "Café des Mamas" project. A coffee farm from the north of Rwanda, run by women and committed to women's education. You can taste it clearly in Café des Mamas, the Rwandan women's power.
About the project
Café des Mamas is grown and processed in Rwanda by Agnes Mukamushinja and her team at the Nova Washing Station. The coffee industry is a women's business, many people don't know that, as women usually work more behind the scenes, as pickers, sorters, farmers. Women usually do the really hard jobs and are paid the least.
The Rwandan woman has been the owner of Nova since 2013. She puts special focus on the quality of the coffees and the working conditions of her employees. With each year, Agnes becomes successful with this model and works out more independence for herself and her team at the Nova Washing Station.
It is different at Nova Station, where even the people at the top are female. Agnes is convinced that women are at least as capable of running excellent farms. "Once the ladies are well off, the whole nation is well off!"
She supports her female employees outside of the coffee business, teaching them tailoring so that everyone is taken care of in the off-season. She pays for treatment costs and provides electricity and water for neighbouring houses. You can find out more about the project on the Nova Coffee website.
Grindsize
If you don't have a grinder at home, we'll be happy to grind the coffee to your specifications. Simply click on your preparation option above or order whole beans.
Find the right grind. You can get the most out of your coffee by grinding your beans just before brewing. Take a look at the equipment selection if you are interested in a grinder.
You can also select a grind level in each product if you want us to grind the beans for you. We use a Mahlkönig EK43 for this.
Frenchpress and Aeropress are ground on the same setting.
Cultivation
Grown with love by great farmers. 100% Arabica coffee, harvested when ripe and carefully processed. Sustainable and fairly traded.
Coffee is a fruit with many natural fruit acids. We roast our coffees to bring out these acids, but also to bring out the sweetness. When our roasters develop a flavour profile for a filter coffee, they make sure to use a slightly lower temperature. In our coffees, we bring out the natural flavour profile of each variety, but also of the terroir of Origin.