Coffee Wood Collection

Many of the farmers in the Aranga Coffee Group are replacing their old trees with new trees. The new trees they are planting are a special new variety developed by TACRI, Tanzania coffee research institute. These trees are developed for our area and are more resistant against plant diseases than the old trees. This is very good for the farmers so they don’t need to use any artificial pesticides on the trees anymore. This is not only cheaper for the farmers, but it also makes it much easier for them to work with organic farming.

Because of these new trees, we have a lot of coffee wood available, and this has resulted in our brand new coffee wood collection. We have coffee spoons, sugar spoons and coasters, all carefully made by hand by local woodworkers here in Tanzania. To make sure they will be food save, we have made our own wood polish from beeswax and sunflower oil. The beeswax comes from one of the coffee farmers' beehives. 

If you're interested in buying some of these products, please visit our web-shop. The coasters is not available in the web-shop yet, but just write to us and we can help you get them anyway. 

Coffee auction

Aranga Coffee Group sell all their coffee to Wild Tracks every year. They don`t have to worry about selling the coffee at the auction, where the price usually is very low and the competition is high. But according to the Tanzanian law, all coffee produced in the country must go through the coffee auction in Tanzania, because the government wants to keep track of the production in the country.

Wild Tracks and Aranga Coffee Group set a price for the coffee every year, around 3 times higher the average price on the market. After Wild Tracks have bought the coffee we have to bring it to the coffee auction to buy the coffee from ourselves before anybody else buys it.

Wild Tracks go to the coffee auction at The Kahawa House in Moshi, about 1,5 hour from Arusha. Before the auction you get the opportunity to do a cupping of all the coffee. After tasting almost all the coffee for the auction we know for sure that the coffee from the Aranga Coffee Group is worth the money.