Description
Limited Release No. 45: Yemen Mokha Hiwari
This natural-processed lot comes to us via Pearl of Tehama, a Yemeni exporter founded in 2015 by Fatoum Muslot, as an extension of her father Ali Hiba Muslot’s long-running coffee business. As one of Yemen’s first female coffee exporters, Fatoum has continued her family’s work while building stronger market access for farmers and supporting quality-focused production. This Hiwari comes from Al-Qafr District in Ibb Governorate, where 131 smallholder farmers grow coffee at 1900 to 2000 masl across intermountain fields and valley plains in high shade, relatively abundant rainfall, and traditional organic practices. The coffee is manually harvested and sun-dried on rooftops and raised beds before being milled and sorted for export.
Origin: Yemen
Region: Ibb, Al-Qafr
Species: Arabica
Variety: Heirloom Typica
Process: Natural/Dry Process
Altitude: 1900-2000 msl
Yemen coffee is grown on mountainsides so steep that farms must be terraced, creating steps on which coffee can be planted, a practice now hundreds of years old. In recent years, however, the challenge for coffee farmers has been accessing international markets due to conflicts within the country. It is extremely difficult to export coffee from Yemen under current conditions, which contributes to the prices being admittedly very high. But the 90,000 Yemen coffee farmers are known to be as resilient as their coffee (which has been studied by World Coffee Research for its hardiness). For most farmers, the practices around producing coffee have not changed for generations. Virtually all Yemen coffee is naturally processed, drying on mats or raised beds or rooftops, and is sometimes called the “mother of all natural processed coffee.”
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