Click on the photo of Bayene
to learn more about him.

Click here to begin your journey through the foothills of Southern Ethiopia.

In collaboration with the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union and goNGOgo, Higher Grounds is pleased to take you on a weekly virtual visit to Ethiopia!

With a digital camera, a motorcycle and a laptop computer, Beyene (as in Vienna), who is based in the state of Sidamo in the town of Yirgacheffee in Southern Ethiopia, visits our partner farmers and documents their daily life as they work to provide us with the highest quality fair trade, organic, and shade grown coffees. Each week, you will visit the sites of new schools and health centers that have been built, managed and staffed by the very people who grow the finest organic and fair trade coffees in the world. Buy our Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast, and visit each week to witness life in Sidamo while getting to know the very farmers who provide you with that tasty morning cup of fair trade coffee.

Purchase Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast and Higher Grounds will tip the farmers $1 for every pound purchased.

Through this photo project, Beyene and Oromia Coffee Farmers Grower Union are hoping to expose coffee consumers throughout the world to the realities of an Ethiopian coffee grower. Higher Grounds is supporting the cause by supporting the project and tipping the Ethiopian farmers $1 for every bag of Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast sold on our website.

Funds raised through the Oromia Photo Project will be used to:

• Supply students and teachers with desks and office furniture
• Construct additional four class rooms at community school
• Supply medical equipment for the health post at Afursa Bangassa
• Develop a water system for the health post

Click here to purchase Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast now.