Tanzania Coffee Farm

About the Farms

The Tanzania coffee featured at Covered Bridge Mercantile is sourced from small, family-owned farms in Tanzania's southern highlands — the heart of the country's finest growing regions. Most farms consist of just a few acres of land, with production rooted in generations of careful cultivation.

A Commitment to Quality Processing

Coffee quality in Tanzania continues to rise thanks to investment in centralized infrastructure. Companies like Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) have developed collective mills called CPUs (Central Processing Units), where cherry production from small farms is received and carefully sorted, depulped, fermented, washed, and dried. These centrally located facilities process coffee more consistently, ensure better quality, and result in stronger prices from the international market — meaning more income for the farmers themselves. The centralized model also removes the burden on individual farmers to invest in and maintain their own processing equipment.

About the Peaberry

This lot is a peaberry selection — a naturally occurring curiosity where one seed matures inside the cherry rather than the typical two. The result is a rounder bean that is hand-sorted during milling and prized for its distinct flavor characteristics. Peaberry lots are rarer and represent some of the most expressive coffee a region has to offer.