Just A Little Happy: UGANDAN

Just a Little Happy is the BTC Bonus coffee— a rotating single origin of something really good.

This is our first African spotlight! Organic Ugandan Bugisu! 

Fig, plum, cocoa, that good lingering body and  after-taste. Low acid and complex, with a rainbow of flavors that glimmers and fades. An evocative coffee worth lingering over, and here’s the story: 

Bugisu Co-Op Union Limited is one of the oldest cooperatives in Uganda and was formed in 1954 to wrest control of the coffee trade away from Ugandan’s colonial masters to the benefit of its local farmers.  The Co-Op is owned by small coffee farmers who grow Arabica coffee that was first introduced to the area in 1912.

The coffee grows on the volcanic slopes of Mount Elgon on the Ugandan side of the border with Kenya. It is grown on small gardens by individual farmers in households where women assume responsibility for growing coffee which often is the family’s only source of income.

These beans are grown near a town called Sipi Falls, which is near Victoria Falls and several other waterfalls — one of the most beautiful places in the world. 

Supporting this co-op’s efforts is essentially supporting all of Ugandan’s specialty coffee industry, and every year this crop tastes better and gets bigger. 

It’s a mug of coffee you can really be happy about. It now has Organic, Utz, Shade Grown, and Rain Forest Alliance Certifications!

(As always, add more coffee in your brewing process if you like your coffee dark as night and to slap you across the face, or less if you like a more lackadaisical cup of joe.)

And just so you know..

*our beans are fair-trade and organic / we roast in small batches daily so your coffee will always be fresh/ our building runs on solar/ this bag is compostable/ We use coffee roasting byproducts in our garden/ BTC runs a weekly gardening class at our local elementary school* 

THANK YOU 

For shopping small & keeping us doing what we love