Name: Demeka Becha, Ethiopia - Theodore's Coffee
Brand: Theodore's Coffee
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limoncello, ginger ale, watermelon soda, freesia, candied grapefruit, kumquat.

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DEMEKA BECHA WASHING STATION
Demeka Becha site is situated at the top of a hill, which is ideal for air flow along the
drying beds. You enter through tin gates which open onto lush green grass and, if you’re lucky,
smiling day laborers lined up clapping and whistling their excitement at your visit.
The Demeka Becha site is owned by Ayele Tulu, a Sidama man who is deeply integrated into the local area of Bona Zuria where he has a few sites. His son Tsegab Ayele, who
speaks fluent English and is eagerly involved with coffee culture globally through social media,
is his right hand and manages the project. Tsegab’s younger brother Abinet (still in college but
clearly on route to joining the family business) is responsible for photography and making sure
that his dad has a chair and is comfortable.
The heart, perhaps the true engine, of the family is Genet Haile Endeshow, Tsegab’s
mother and Ayele’s wife. She fills up their lives and the home with her warmth, and her embrace
expands to include everyone who has the privilege of working with the family and their coffee
producing sites. She’ll make you a killer doro wat or chicken stew, which is served to honor
guests in Ethiopia, and follow it up with traditional Ethiopian buna (coffee), served on her porch
below the flowering vines that shade it even in the heat of midday.
Demeka Becha site pulls cherries from nearby communities including Dilla Suke, Demeka, Goacho, Becha, and Bashiro Dale—close to 10,000 producers are situated in the areas
surrounding the washing station. Producers bring their cherries to be weighed on the characteristic blue scale, logged in the book by Cashier and General Manager, Alemu Gobaro, and floated before being dumped into the cement hopper to begin the journey through the 4-disk Agard
pulper and into fermentation tanks and cement washing channels. There are 10 tanks for density grades 1 and 2, and 2 tanks for low density coffee destined for our Community Lot program if
it meets our standard, or for the local market. Following fermentation and washing, the parchment coffee is carried by hand to the drying beds where laborers spread it out to the depth of a
fingertip and keep it turning until it is dried and moved to the locked storehouse to await trucking
to Addis Ababa and final processing.

Jason♥️Magen Olive

Theodore’s Coffee Roasters has a cool backstory that can’t be passed up… Theodore’s was started in 2014 by Darwin Pavon. Darwin was born in Honduras and was lucky enough to find himself one of the original boys in a program called the Micah Project. The Micah Project teaches young men and boys in poverty in Tegucigalpa, Honduras leadership and life skills. This led to Darwin becoming involved in a fertilizer development project where he was collecting soil samples and, my guess is that led to the world of coffee. Fast forward to 2014 and he started a coffee roastery and tasting room in Owosso, Michigan, about midway between Flint and Lansing.
Now the new home is Zeeland Michigan right between Holland and Grand Rapids!

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Theodore’s is sourced through direct trade, a result of Theodore’s founder Darwin Pavon’s relationship with farmers throughout Central America and, more recently, Africa.
Through direct trade, Theodore’s ensures that their farmers are paid a fair amount for their coffee and support Micah Project.

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