Nyeri Hill AA

This washing station is privately owned coffee estate located in Nyeri county whose big farm is spread within the red volcanic soils of Mt Kenya highlands,at an impressive altitude of 1700m. The estate is owned by the Catholic Church. It happens to be one of the oldest coffee farms in Kenya.All the coffee is fully washed, the ripe coffee cherries are picked and delivered to the factory, they will be pulped and dry fermented for 24 hours. Thereafter the coffee is washed with clean water from the river and dried on raised beds. The predominant variety of coffee grown is SL28, SL 34 and Ruiru 11. The coffee is intercropped with macadamia trees that provide shade cover.The coffee estate has 380 permanent employees and it employs 100-150 casual workers from the neighboring community during the peak of the harvesting season. Nyeri hill is regarded as the biggest employer non Nyeri County. Important to note that the revenues generated by the farm are ploughed to the churches missionary work within the Nyeri County that include funding of very many schools and hospitals.