Sakami Coffee Ranches Ltd. was founded by Gloria, who gave up her career as a beautician to devote herself entirely to coffee. Together with her husband Jarmo, she bought a historic coffee plantation in the North Rift Valley, a region best known for corn. They wanted to make the area famous for specialty coffee as well.

The 120-hectare plantation is located at an altitude of 1,800 meters and combines coffee cultivation with macadamia, avocado, dairy, and vegetable farming. The name Sakami is inspired by their daughters Sheila, Saar, and Nakami.

Only fully ripe coffee cherries are picked by hand, mainly by women. The cherries are pulped on site and, until now, dry processing has been outsourced to commercial mills. Sakami wants to install its own dry processing equipment in the near future in order to maintain complete control over the quality of the green coffee beans.

The coffee is roasted on a Probat UG22 (22 kg, built in 1965). The roasting time is 10 minutes. After the first crack, 25% of the roasting time remains, resulting in a balanced roast profile.