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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Rwanda People's Farm, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Rwanda People's Farm; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Rwanda People's Farm; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Rwanda People's Farm; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇷🇼Rwanda · Western Province, Rwanda

Rwanda People's Farm

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsRwandaWestern Province, RwandaBourbonWashedBrown SugarArabicaSingle originKivubelt Coffee (Furaha Umwizeye)Intelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)Smallholder collective lot
🇷🇼RwandaWashedBourbon
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇷🇼Rwanda
Region
Western Province, Rwanda
Town
—
Farm / Station
People's Farm smallholder network; Murundo washing station
Farmer / Producer
Kivubelt Coffee (Furaha Umwizeye)
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Apple, Raw Sugar
Fermentation
After flotation and density sorting, depulped parchment ferments for 12 hours and then soaks in water for 24 hours.
Drying
Shaded pre-drying beds followed by raised beds for up to three weeks
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farmPeople’s Farm is a smallholder collective rather than one literal farm.
  • individual growersThe exact current release does not name the contributing smallholders.
  • altitude mPrimary sources do not publish one exact elevation for the multi-farm current lot; elevations from other People’s Farm lots are not substituted.
  • harvest / exact lotThe recurring Intelligentsia product identity spans different harvests, and no crop year or day-lot identifier is exposed for the current page.
  • bag size gA current tracker lists 12 ounces, while a recent direct Intelligentsia location listing uses 10 ounces; no single package size is asserted.
  • tasting notesApple and raw sugar were captured from the exact product page in October 2026, but other Murundo People’s Farm listings carry different notes; the notes are release-specific, not permanent collective attributes.
  • roast levelNo conventional light, medium or dark label is confirmed by the primary product source.
  • gradeNo formal green-coffee lot grade is published.
  • public sentimentNo qualifying independent tasting or rating for the exact current Intelligentsia release was found.
  • owner tastingNo owner purchase, brew, tasting, score or approval is documented for this coffee.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Rwanda People's Farm
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Bourbon
  5. 05
    The farm
    People's Farm smallholder network; Murundo washing station
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Kivubelt Coffee (Furaha Umwizeye)
  7. 07
    The region
    Western Province, Rwanda
  8. 08
    The country
    🇷🇼Rwanda
From the producer

Kivubelt Coffee, led by Furaha Umwizeye, organizes and supports the People’s Farm smallholder network and processes delivered cherry at Murundo washing station. Kivubelt’s own page describes more than one hundred participating farmers; Intelligentsia describes a few hundred. No individual grower is assigned to this recurring product record.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia describes People's Farm as an ongoing smallholder collaboration rather than a literal farm. The current product page gives the broad flavor profile Apple + Raw Sugar.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The profile documents how small Rwandan farms can reach separated specialty lots through shared washing-station infrastructure, agronomic support and centralized quality control. It is also a recurring product identity whose lot details change, so current and historical evidence must not be collapsed into one crop.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Smallholder delivery

Farmers in the People’s Farm network hand-pick cherry and deliver it to Kivubelt’s Murundo washing station.

02
Sorting and depulping

Cherry is quality-checked, floated to remove low-density fruit, depulped and density-separated.

03
Fermentation and soak

Separated parchment ferments for 12 hours and is then soaked in water for 24 hours.

04
Drying

Coffee moves through shaded pre-drying and then raised beds for up to three weeks.

What was added?

No fermentation adjuncts or post-roast flavoring are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No single farm, individual grower, exact altitude, harvest date or stable multi-year flavor profile is inferred.

Why it matters

People’s Farm is a collective and the Intelligentsia product identity recurs across harvests. Separating the network-level process from release-specific package and flavor data prevents false provenance.

What you might taste

The record retains apple and raw sugar as Intelligentsia notes captured from the exact page in October 2026. Other Intelligentsia listings for Murundo releases carry different notes, so these are not treated as permanent People’s Farm attributes.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/rwanda-murundo-peoples-farm
  • · https://www.kivubeltcoffee.com/our-coffee
  • · https://lotandorigin.com/coffee/intelligentsia.com%3A6865507680316
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-11-13) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Independent tasting eligibility required exact roaster, recurring product identity and release. Catalog trackers, retailer listings, Intelligentsia location menus, producer pages and coverage of other People’s Farm harvests were excluded from sentiment scoring. No qualifying exact-release tasting source remained.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Kivubelt Coffee (Furaha Umwizeye) →
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