Habtamu Fikadu Wet Mill

The story

Verve's archived product page describes Habtamu Fikadu as a wet mill and community project rather than a single-farm lot. The station purchases cherry from about 140 nearby producers.

Innovations

For Verve's archived lot, cherry was fermented underwater for 48 to 72 hours, washed, submerged for a further 12 hours, then dried on raised beds for 10 to 12 days.