Mount Sunzu Coffee

25/12/2025

21/11/2025

It was our greatest pleasure to host Swiss Ambassador Stéphane Rey at Mount Sunzu. Thank you!

02/10/2025

Bringing some Zambian flavours to London! ☕️ 🌱 😊

19/09/2025

📊 Predictable Coffee, Predictable Supply — Season After Season 🌦️

How can roasters plan confidently when origin yields are so unpredictable?

At Mount Sunzu, we’ve designed our farm from the ground up to make consistency the standard. 🌱 Our fields are planted at a density of 5’000 trees per hectare, using high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties chosen for both cup potential and resilience. 💧 We reduce rainfall dependency with 100% coverage of pivot irrigation systems, stabilizing yields across seasons. 📦 This allows us to reliably produce 1.8–2.0 tons of green coffee per hectare, translating to 250–300 tons of traceable coffee per year.

🧪 How we keep yields steady and quality high:
We track soil nutrients, leaf mineral content, and irrigation volumes on every plot using flow meters and evapotranspiration data. Preventative protocols, disease resistant varieties, and trained pest & disease scouts help us maintain tree health and minimize losses.

With two fields in production and a third coming online, we can offer multi-container volumes with consistent profiles. Our harvest runs from June through September, with containers shipping from August to November. This gives roasters a clear and predictable buying window.

✅ For roasters, this means secure supply, repeatable quality, and fewer sourcing headaches. We’re not just growing coffee, we’re building a sourcing partnership you can plan, season after season. 🚢

Mount Sunzu Coffee

12/09/2025

🌳 Sweet Forest 🍯 Sweet Honey 🎯 Sweet Impact

What if preserving forests is perceived more valuable than cutting it down for a quick buck?
That’s what we want to explore with our honey initiative.

But why is this even a question? Charcoal production is a burning threat to the forest and its biodiversity. It’s a common practice for increasing incomes of subsistence farmers. The negative side effect? A major driver of deforestation in Zambia. That’s the reason we’ve placed a dozen of beehives in the Miombo woodland, turning trees into long-term income, saving them from becoming firewood. Instead of cutting, we’re cultivating. Instead of firewood, we’re pollinating, preserving, and producing.

🍯 How bees are making a difference:
✅ Charcoal production is one of the main drivers of deforestation. By taking care of the hives, we protect native, slow-growing, and ecologically vital Miombo forests. At the same time, it offers communities a sustainable and profitable alternative to charcoal production.
✅ Every hive supports a household income: We partner with families to manage and harvest honey, creating jobs while fostering forest stewardship.
✅ Bees bring biodiversity back: Their pollination benefits nearby crops, plants, and wild forest species. Every hive becomes a ripple of regeneration.

🐝 ✨ Bonus Buzz:
One day, we dream of coffee honey: A light, floral, and a sweet delicacy, drawn from the very flowers that bloom on our coffee trees.

For now, we’re proud of the quiet, sustainable change humming in the forest, sweet returns without felling a single tree

Mount Sunzu Coffee

05/09/2025

📦 From Origin to You!

How does green coffee from Mount Sunzu, Zambia, get to your roastery on time, intact, and traceable?
It’s not a simple journey. Zambia is landlocked, which means every bag of Mount Sunzu Coffee goes on Safari:
📍 Farm → Tanzanian Border → Dar-es-Salaam Port → Destination
That’s 700+ km of overland logistics plus we don’t know how many miles on a vessel!

Shipping, customs, and export documentation… We don’t leave any of that to chance.

🔍 What we control from origin:
✅ On-farm Dry-Milling: No subcontracted mills. We hull, sort, and bag every lot ourselves to maintain moisture, bean size, and quality integrity.
✅ GrainPro Packaging: Each bag is sealed with GrainPro liners to preserve quality throughout the journey.
✅ Full Documentation Support: Phytosanitary certificates, Export permits and ICO origin certificates.
✅ Customs Clearance Network: We work with a verified network of agents to conduct shipping line pre-checks, reducing customs risks.

💡 Why this matters for you:
• Fewer delays
• Predictable delivery timelines
• Full traceability
• A partner with proven logistics success

Whether you're importing your first Zambian lot or managing multiple origins, Mount Sunzu is built to deliver reliably.
We handle logistics like we handle coffee: with structure, precision, and care.

Mount Sunzu Coffee

01/09/2025

📸 Wet Milling | The Farm's Darkroom

What does it take to develop the perfect photo? In wet milling, we’re doing just that. We capture the raw moment of the harvest, but only after the water bath it is ready for the light.

Like a photograph in development, wet milling reveals the unseen. It begins right after harvest, when the cherry skin gives way, when sugars are sorted from structure, and when fermentation is not chaos, but choreography. What only was there in its essence is now turned into density, integrity, and clarity of flavours.

🖋️ Frame by frame, we develop flavour:
• Harvested cherries are pulped with calibrated pressure, setting the image.
• Mechanical demucilagers control contact time, preserving the "exposure" of mucilage.
• Fermentation tanks hold exact temperature windows, like the bath of the film in the darkroom.
• Beans are washed until water runs clear, the rinse before the reveal.
• Then dried slowly on raised beds, to lock in integrity and depth.

Every step is a frame. Every decision adjusts exposure. Because like a photographer chasing perfect contrast, we’re chasing clarity, consistency, and structure. What we protect here carries all the way to the final brew.

☕ Before coffee is ready for the world, it must be developed, not just dried.


Mount Sunzu Coffee

23/08/2025

☀️ The Sun Works for Us and for the Future of Coffee in Zambia 🌱

At Mount Sunzu, the sun powers more than just our coffee trees.
Thanks to our solar PV system, we generate 65% of our farm’s total energy need, powering everything from irrigation pumps to processing equipment. In a region where power cuts and load-shedding are the norm, this isn’t just innovation, it’s resilience in action.

💧 Irrigation is our biggest energy draw. But solar lets us run our pivot systems consistently, without relying on Zambia’s national grid. That means:
• Fewer blackouts
• Healthier, better-irrigated trees
• More reliable harvests

✅ Why it matters:
• 65% of total farm energy now comes from the sun
• We’ve reduced our power load on the national grid
• Zero-emission energy means a lower carbon footprint
• We feed surplus electricity back into the grid through net metering, supporting the region’s power supply

🌍 Clean power is no longer a luxury. It’s a core part of how we grow coffee - efficiently, regeneratively, and responsibly.

Mount Sunzu Coffee

15/08/2025

Precision in Every Cup: Why Our Coffee is Replicable, Year After Year 🔁

At Mount Sunzu, reliability isn't a lucky accident, it's engineered into every step of how we grow and process our coffee. From seed to dry mill, every detail happens on our own fields, under our management, following calibrated protocols designed for one purpose: to deliver repeatable quality, at scale.

✅ No outsourcing. We don’t buy cherries or parchments from outside suppliers. Every bean comes from our own trees.
✅ Modern varieties. Starmaya, Marsellesa, Mariana, planted for cup potential and resilience.
✅ Real-time monitoring. From fermentation tanks to drying beds, every KPI is tracked: moisture, temperature, timing.
✅ In-house grading & dry milling. Each batch is sorted and milled using machines calibrated to its specific profile.
✅ Full traceability. Every lot is cupped, scored, and documented in-house and cross-validated with external Q-Graders.

Why does this matter? Because it means roasters can count on us, not just for great coffee today, but for the same reliable performance tomorrow, next season, next year.

We’re producers. And with that comes the ability to replicate success, season after season. 🌱🔬

Mount Sunzu Coffee

08/08/2025

Meet Brian - Supervisor, Team Leader, Farmer, Father 🛠️ 🌽 🧢 🌍

“My name is Brian, and I work as a supervisor here at Mount Sunzu. I’ve worn many hats over the years, but what I enjoy most is being out in the field, working shoulder to shoulder with the team.

When the work is tough, that’s when I feel most proud. I give my full energy, and when others follow, we move forward together. That’s what drives me.

What brings me joy is seeing people do good work under my leadership. When I say something and they understand, it makes me feel something in my heart. That’s when I know the work is not just done, but done well together as a team

In my free time, I don’t sit still. I farm maize on the side, and this year I’m expecting a strong crop. That means a lot to me. I use my own power to support my family. And when I’m not farming, I’m playing football. Playing with friends clears my mind and makes me feel happy inside.

Today, I’m also back living with my family. This is something I couldn’t always do. Now we share meals, stories, and time together. That’s what completes the picture for me.”

❤️ That is Brian. One of the many voices that keep Mount Sunzu growing.

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