This washing station is owned by small scale farmers located in Mukurweini-Nyeri county whose small farms (about 0.2 ha) are tucked and spread between the Mt Kenya highlands and the Aberdare ridge highlands at an impressive altitude of 1700m to 1800m it is part of the Rumukia cooperative society together with 7 other washing stations/factories; 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, Ruiru 11 and Batian The farmers practice mixed farming within their small farms, they will grow coffee as the primary cash earning crop and will also plant food items like maize/corn, beans, potatoes and vegetables for the family consumption. They also intercrop the coffee with macadamia trees and avocados that provide shade cover.The number of active farmers delivering the coffee to this washing stations are about 600. The factory has 4 permanent employees and it employs 10-20 casual workers from the neighboring community during the peak of the harvesting season.