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Coffea stenophylla — a “third species” for the future of coffee 🌱☕


Grüezi

Together with Hannah in Freetown and Magnus in Kenema, we’ve just planted 3,000 Coffea stenophylla saplings on a 7.4-acre farm in Sierra Leone.

Why it matters:

Arabica → great taste, but fragile in heat

Robusta → hardy, but not as good in the cup

Stenophylla → rediscovered in Sierra Leone, combines quality close to arabica with resilience like robusta

What we’re doing:

Tagging and logging every plant with GPS + photos in KoboCollect

Running small trials with local farmers

Hoping for a first harvest in 3–4 years

Refs:

James Hoffmann video on stenophylla:

https://youtu.be/iGL7LtgC_0I?feature=shared

New genetics study from Sierra Leone:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2025.1554029/full

If anyone has tips on plant tracking, nurseries or early farm management, we’d really appreciate it.

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