The Gakuyu-ini washing station is owned by the Thirikwa Farmers Cooperative Society since 1997, and is located south of Mount Kenya, in the eastern part of Kirinyaga Province Kirinyaga lies in central Kenya, south of Mount Kenya, and along with the neighbouring Nyeri Province it is the source of

Kenya’s most complex coffees. Around 1500 smallholders submit their crop to Gakuyu-ini during the harvest season, where the cherries are immediately sorted and separated according to various rules. The cherries are pulped mechanically the day before being fermented. Fermentation is followed by

washing the cherries, after which they are dried in the sun for 9 to 13 days.