Boon Boona BAVYEVI - BURUNDI
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JNP Coffee is an importer that has been constantly inspiring us to do better and to be more intentional with our green coffee sourcing policies. The company was founded by Jeanine Niyonzima-Aroian who grew up in a coffee producer family in Burundi. Her main motivation to start a coffee export & import business was to provide support programs for high-quality coffee production, gender equity, and financial literacy education to more women farmers in Burundi. Currently, JNP Coffee has been trading 100% of the coffee produced by the International Women's Coffee Alliance (IWCA) in Burundi and is an investor in the wet mills that process all of the IWCAproduced coffee in the country. Of course, Jeanine did not stop there. In 2007, she founded Burundi Friends International (https://bufri.org/), a non-profit organization that focuses on youth education and women's financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Earlier this year, Jeanine received a Katharine F. Erskine Award for “creating change in her community, opening doors for younger women and people of color, and for breaking down barriers for future generations of female leaders.”
Bavyevi has a special meaning for Jeanine as the coffee comes from the same community where her mother grew up. Stories of her mother helping the family harvest coffee cherries to cover school fees stand behind the name for this coffee. In Kirundi, “Bavyeyi” means “parents.” Remote areas of this high-altitude province are well known for quality coffee. JNP Coffee works with an experienced woman-owned cooperative (GASHIKA) to produce Bavyevi. The cooperative is lead by women and also the majority of its 600+ members are Muslim women. JNP Coffee's local Qgrader regularly travels to visit the community to exchange ideas with the farmers on best practices to improve harvesting and post-harvest processing methods. Following the post-harvest processing, the beans are milled at SIVCA dry mill in which JNP Coffee is a stakeholder. Long story short, Bavyevi is a thoughtful, traceable, equitable, empowering, and sustainable coffee.
Last but not least, Bavyevi tastes like fresh cherries and has a creamy body with medium acidity. We enjoy it best with pour-over methods, especially when brewed with a long bloom and on the lower end of the temperature spectrum.
- Producer: Gashika Cooperative
- Importer: JNP Coffee
- Region: Ngozi Province Coffee
- Variety: Bourbon
- Processing: Dry-processed (Natural)
- Dry Mill: SIVCA Mill
- Elevation: 1,800 m
- Crop: 2021
- Language of the community: Kirundi
| Сafein free | No decaf |
| Process | Dry |
| Cupping Notes | Fruity |
| Availability | In stock |
| Altitude | > 1500 m |
Boon Boona Coffee
"Boon" and "Boona" are both words that mean "coffee" in different languages of East Africa. And at Boon Boona, we're committed to sharing the unique coffee and coffee traditions of this region — and to supporting coffee growers and our local community in the process.
Growing up in Seattle, Boon Boona founder and CEO Efrem Fesaha was familiar with the experience of large coffee chains. Coming from an Eritrean family, he also grew up with the traditional coffee ceremony performed by Eritreans and Ethiopians, which is the way that many people from this region prepare their daily cup of coffee.
In 2011, Efrem traveled to Asmara, Eritrea, and he fell in love with the local coffee culture. The café experience there was unlike anything he'd seen back in Seattle: The cafes were filled with the scent of freshly roasted coffee and provided a welcoming community environment at the same time.
Returning home with newfound joy and excitement, Efrem set out to put his own mark on the coffee industry. After his initial business plan to open an East African coffee shop was rejected by banks, Efrem didn't give up, and instead pivoted to sourcing quality green coffee from Ethiopia for East African communities in the U.S.
Soon his family and friends discovered that they could purchase quality green coffee from him. And since drinking coffee in East African culture is something you often do with others rather than by yourself, word spread fast, and before long, his coffee was being distributed in stores across the West Coast.
By 2016, following the requests of American friends who prefer roasted coffee, Efrem began experimenting with his own roasting techniques. This, too, took off over the course of two years Boon Boona Roastery and Café was born.
Today, Boon Boona has formed long-lasting, sustainable relationships with coffee producers, exporters and importers in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and many more African nations, with a focus on supporting woman-owned growers. This means that we're not only able to source some of the best coffee from Africa, but we're also able to share a larger share of our profits directly with the growers, while helping develop the African coffee industry.
In keeping with the spirit of East African coffee shops, we also work to foster a community environment at our café, and we're proud to provide an inclusive space for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized individuals. We're constantly thinking up ways to support our local community, from providing pop-up space to artists, non-profits, and small businesses; to handing out free coffee at Black Lives Matter events; to bringing crucial resources like King County Libraries and the King County Health Care Plan Finder into the café so people can easily access them.
Whether you join us in person at our café or order our coffee online, thank you for becoming part of our community and for supporting African coffee growers.
What is the East African Coffee Ceremony?
The East African coffee ceremony is the way that many East African peoples consume their daily coffee, and it's a practice that we honor and continue at Boon Boona Coffee.
The ceremony involves pan roasting raw coffee beans, then brewing the beans in a clay pot known as a jebena. The ceremony is often performed in people's homes for personal consumption and as a sign of hospitality for guests.
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