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From May to June, I spent 4 weeks in Kenya at coffee farms and I had a chance to meet about 15 coffee farmers. Listen their stories, get an overview what are the risks and challenges for coffee farmers. How they live every day, what their homes and farms look like. What makes a coffee farmer happy, what are the hopes and expectations of a coffee farmer. In the following interview, you can read the thoughts of  an young coffee farmer David from Kenya.
 

When it comes to Kenyan coffee varieties, most cafés or roasteries always have the variety SL28 or SL34 at the top of their list. It's true that the SLs are well known coffee varities to give a good cup full of flavor but there’s more to Kenyan coffee varities than what you can only get from the SL coffee varieties. Here’s an in-depth but to the point overview of the most common coffee varieties available.