Adam Overton
🇪🇹Ethiopia

Adam Overton

Adam Overton is a coffee producer and co-founder of the Gesha Village Coffee Estate in Ethiopia. Alongside his partner Rachel Samuel, he transitioned from a career in documentary filmmaking to coffee farming to preserve and elevate the legacy of Ethiopian coffee.

Farm: Gesha Village →

History

Overton and Samuel first visited Ethiopia in 2007 to produce a documentary about the country's coffee industry, which sparked their passion for the region. In 2011, they established the 471-hectare Gesha Village Coffee Estate in the Bench-Maji zone, near the Gori Gesha forest, to cultivate and study native coffee varieties.

The farmer's day, in pictures

Editorial illustrations of the harvest and farm work our research documented — anonymous figures, never real likenesses.

Adam Overton — coffee farmer illustration 1
Adam Overton — coffee farmer illustration 2
Adam Overton — coffee farmer illustration 3
Coffees by Adam Overton