Machare Coffee Estate has been the first organic certified coffee estate in East Africa, being truly committed to sustainability, leading the way into the future with eco-friendly projects.
Our entire estate is organic certified.
We have planted 15,000 trees on our farm and neighbourhood.
We are actively enhancing our neighbourhood's living conditions.
90% of our waste (plastic, metal, wood, paper) is recycled and all our coffee waste is being reintroduced into the coffee cycle.
We are providing employment for our surrounding community.
We are sourcing local craftmanship for the lodge and the farm.
We are sourcing vegetables from our own organic vegetable garden and local farmers.
In addition to our eco-friendly coffee farming, we're all about embracing a variety of sustainable practices on our farm and within our neighboring communities.
We are all about recycling and reusing here. Take our nursery planting pots, for example, which have been in use for 20 years! And our plastic sheets? They're UV-proof and last for 5 years, way better than those non-UV proof one-season wonders. In addition, we also recycle and reuse metals.
Our coffee estate is nestled between two rivers, and we make sure they are well-protected. No farming, no grazing, no chopping wood, no tree felling, and absolutely no pollution. We have also got a permanent well and two seasonal ones, plus water channels running through the estate – and, of course, we take best care of them, too.
Sharing is caring: We regularly have school kids and local farmers from neighboring communities for workshops, training, and environmental education at our estate. And we also welcome visitors from around the globe throughout the year to share our knowledge and passion for coffee.
Cooking on Kilimanjaro usually means an open fire and lots of firewood. But we are changing that: We have already equipped a quarter of our neighboring households with firewood-saving stoves, cutting down firewood use by 75%!
We are not just about coffee, we also provide water projects to help our neighbors irrigate their farms.
We are helping to build micro-biogas plants for small households. Powered by manure from just one cow, these families can cook all their meals without needing firewood. How cool is that?
We're helping small farmers to produce better coffee qualities by forming Central Pulpery Units (CPU). Machare Coffee Estate assists them in gaining access to the market – and achieving better prices in the end.
Our dispensary station is like a friendly neighborhood general practitioner: It's open on weekdays to everyone living within an 8 km radius, all year round.
In addition to installing firewood-saving stoves, we have also handed out blankets to families, keeping them warm during those chilly Kilimanjaro nights and saving them from having to light an open fire.
