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Kabum Dark Roast Bugisa Arabica Coffee, from highland shade-grown beans SKU# KABUM12 jpg image

Kabum Dark Roast Bugisa Arabica Coffee
$12.99
KABUM12

Rich, bright and chocolaty. Kabum Coffee is a highland, shade-grown bean who's brewed taste consistently scores at the top of the competition during independent taste tests.
1 Bag Whole Bean: 12 oz. (340 grams)

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The best coffee. In. The. World.

Without an amazing product, we’d be just another coffee company with a warm, fuzzy business plan. Fortunately, as luck would have it, Mt. Elgon just so happens to be blessed with a mix of latitude and altitude that doesn't exist many other places on earth.

Consequently, the highland, shade-grown Arabica beans grown in the area are nothing short of stellar. Michigan State University’s tests confirmed that the region's beans also benefit from the rich volcanic soil and equatorial latitude.

Bottom line: Kabum isn’t just about supporting a great cause. It’s also about producing the best coffee available anywhere.

The area is rugged, but we use GPS technology to map each and every farmer's cup.

No better coffee. No better cause.

There's fair trade coffee. There's farmer co-op coffee. And then there's Kabum Coffee — some of the best beans grown anywhere on the planet. All backed by a business model that's fully, entirely and wholeheartedly humanitarian-based. Who wouldn't drink to that?

You see coffee beans. We see a way to provide local farmers with a future.

What we’re about, in a nutshell.

In the world economy, the appetite for coffee is second only to that of oil in the commodities markets. Consequently, there’s no shortage of beans being grown on farmland all around the globe. But in the vast majority of those regions, local growers — the ones who toil and sweat in their fields every day — rarely see any real profits from their efforts.

Enter ideas like “fair trade,” “direct trade” and “farmer co-op.” They’ve gone a long way to help improve the price paid to farmers and to make sure they’re more fairly compensated for their hard work and for their product.

At Kabum, we think it’s time to quite literally take things up a notch. Or several notches. Whereas fair trade raises the floor of what local farmers are paid, we blow the ceiling off — by sending the vast majority of profits back to the individual growers. We also pay retroactive bonuses for a quality product after harvest time and administer micro-loans so that individual farmers can own their own land and their own equipment and aren't beholden to others in the harvesting process.

We call this truly humanitarian-based way of doing things “true trade.”

Simple idea: Those who toil and sweat in their fields every day should see more profits. Lots more.

The more long-winded version of our story and what we’re about.

Like we said, Kabum is a different kind of coffee company. We’re born entirely of altruistic, humanitarian interests with one goal in mind: to make as much money as possible for the people of Uganda by allowing them to bypass typical middlemen and sell their coffee direct to buyers on the world market. By doing that, they’re able to sustain themselves and begin turning their country and their economy in a different direction — much like is happening right now in neighboring Rwanda and Burundi.

A double half-caf, no foam, with a side of self-sustaining prosperity.
Because coffee is such a huge commodity, it brings with it tremendous earnings potential. As a result, countless farmers and growers in emerging cultures have been exploited over the years. That quickly became clear to our founders back in 2003 when we first ventured to the western slopes of Mt. Elgon to help drill a well that would provide clean drinking water to the community of Kapchorwa.

After succeeding in providing the village with a clean water source and spending several years to set-up and administer a child sponsorship program, we began to realize the tremendous coffee growing potential the area had and how, if that system could be effectively put into place, it would be a classic case of “teach a man to fish and you’ll teach him to eat for a lifetime.”

The little engine that can.
With all this in mind, we’ve established relationships with a group of 70 farmers who now form the core membership of the Kabum co-op (some of whom each represent up to 15-30 farmers). These farmers are the first of many who will pay off micro-loans for their land and infrastructure within five to seven years.

After that, the land, the washing stations and everything else they need to sustain themselves will belong to them. We’ll remain in the picture only as administrators. Not middlemen. Just a stewarding team of businessmen who want to make sure that the farmers themselves continue to have direct access to buyers and, in turn, the highest profits the market will bear for them.

That’s true trade and therein, we believe, lies the engine that can power huge change.

Today Uganda. Tomorrow the world.
While we’ve been in the region working since 2003, our movement is now reaching the tipping point. Years of hard work have paid off and Kabum’s true trade concept is gaining momentum. Which is great, because we don’t plan on stopping at Uganda’s borders. Our next goal is to take our concept of maximizing profits for local farmers to different agricultural industries and different countries around the globe — all in an effort to free the oppressed, empower the weak and provide for those who can’t provide for themselves.

Every morning coffee opens the eyes of people around the world
Our goal? Use it to opens their eyes to the needs of orphans and widows.

Have world-class coffee, will travel.

High on the western slopes of Mt. Elgon you’ll find our coffee plants ripening beneath the Ugandan sun. Here in the Sipi Falls area of the Kapchorwa District, Bugisu Arabica thrives — something that only happens in a very narrow altitude (between 1,600 and 1,900 meters).

With roads and infastructure just now letting us access new areas, this region has unending potential and quantities. It’s an undiscovered wealth of coffee ready for worthwhile consumption.

Say hello to the reasons we do what we do.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a warmer, more loving, more hard-working people than the residents of Kapchorwa. We can’t think of a better reason to build a different kind of coffee company, can you?