Coffee directly from the farmer in Tanzania
Wild Tracks in a Norwegian- Tanzanian company doing safari and coffee production. The company buys dry green coffee directly from Aranga Coffee Group. In the season 2010/2011 we pay 3800 Tsh/kg green coffee (2,5 USD/kg). The normal price if the farmer is selling to other companies has been 2000 Tsh this season. In 2008 Wild Tracks started their own Coffee Roasting Factory in the village. Coffee is roasted, grinded and packed here. By doing all the coffee processing inside Tanzania we create many new jobs and the money stays in the country.

The Coffee farmer
This coffee is made by families living at Mt. Meru (4565 meter). It is the third biggest mountain in Africa and it was a volcano. The altitude, closeness to equator and the volcanic earth makes the coffee growing here of the highest quality, Arabica AA.
Aranga Coffee Group has 25 family members from Nkoaranga area in Mt. Meru. The families have a long tradition with coffee farming. For some it is the 3rd generation of coffee farmers and some trees are from the period around 1910 when the first coffee trees where introduced to the area by missionaries. Every family has their small land where they handpick the coffee. The altitude of the farms are 1500-1700 meter above sea and 3 degrees south of equator. The families pick, wash and dry the coffee beans at their farm. When the coffee is dry enough Wild Tracks buy the coffee directly from the group.

Roasting and packing of the coffee
In October 2008 Wild Tracks started their own small roasting factory in Nkoaranga Village. The dry coffee is stored here and roasted only on orders from customers. There are 2 people working full time while in periods with high activity we hire extra help. Wild Tracks receive coffee orders from private people all over the world. Fair Trade shops are selling the coffee and more and more cafes and restaurants in Tanzania use the coffee for their guests. In 2009 we exported around 5 tonns of roasted coffee.The coffee is roasted after your special wish; Medium, French or Dark. You also decide if you want the coffee as whole beans or grinded. The coffee is first packed in plastic and thereafter in home sewed textile bags. The textile is made of Tanzanian cotton and special designed at Sun Flag factory in Arusha town, Tanzania. At the coffee factory we cut and sew the textile into nice bags. The bag is closed with a banana leaf and on the etiquette you find the name of the family that produced your coffee and date of roasting.

Orders
If you want to make an order you will send an email to: info@wild-tracks.com or use our booking page here
Give the following details on order:

• Name and address
• How many kg of coffee you want
• Roasting qualiy (Medium, French or Dark)
• How fine grinded (espresso, filterdrip, french press, or whole beans)

Prices from sept 2010
You can mix roasting quality and grindings in the same order. We can maximum send 26 kg of coffee per box.The price is 14 USD per kg without transport expenses.
The shipment depends on where you live and how quickly you need your coffee.

Prices included shipment for most European countries and USA:
Express delivery (5-7 days from the coffee is sent from Tanzania until it is delivered on your door)
5 kg: 33,5 USD/kg, total 167,5 USD/kg
10 kg: 28 USD/kg, total 280 USD/kg
26 kg: 26,3 USD/kg, total 683,8 USD/kg

Prices included shipment for most European countries.
Normal parcel (7-21 days after it is sent from Tanzania)
5 kg: 25 USD/kg, total 125 USD/kg
10 kg: 22,4 USD/kg, total 224 USD/kg
26 kg: 20,5 USD/kg, total 533 USD/kg

For the same quality coffee you would pay 33 USD and more pr kg when bought in a coffee shop in Europe. The boxes receive a number that can be traced at internet.

The Tanzanian Items For Sale
A box with the best from Tanzania. They are perfect Christmas/birthdays gifts that we send directly from Tanzania and home to the receiver.

The coffee box, 47 USD
Included:

• 2 bags of coffee (500 g)
• Brown sugar (350 g)
• Home sewed table cloth
• Hand painted card

The tea box, 47 USD
Included:

• 2 bags of tea (500 g), with traditional receipt
• Brown sugar (350 g)
• Home sewed table cloth
• Hand painted card

Accessories Carvings

• Coffee measuring spoon, big or small 3,5 USD
• Sugar spoon with masai jewellary, 3,5 USD
• Walking African (17 cm), 3 USD

Accessories Maaasai jewellaries

Christmas star (7 cm in diameter), 7,5 USD

Bracelet, one colour, 9 USD
Bracelet, many colours, 9 USD

Long bracelet, 7 USD

Big ornament, 17 USD. It can also be used as a belt.

You can choose as many accessories as you want and put in the box.

To make and order send email to: info@wild-tracks.com or use our online booking form here

Details to give us
• Address to the receiver
• What should be in the box
• What should be written on the card
• Who is paying

Post cards (5 USD):

5 hand painted cards with animal/masaai motive. Made by Obadia G Mbise from Nkoaranga village. Every card is unique. This is not a reprint!



Different textile products
They are all made from left over textiles from the coffee bags. We realized that we have so much nice material that we could not use for the coffee bags but we don’t want to throw them. So we started to sew new things out of them at our coffee roasting factory. All products are therefore unique with or without animal motives. If you order textiles together with coffee we will not charge anything extra for shipment (if they don’t weight more than 1 kg).


Big (approximately 20x25 cm), 2,5 USD     Small (approximately 8x13 cm), 1,5 USD



Shoulder Bag Big 8 USD                                        Shoulder bag Small: 5,5 USD


Table cloth (approximately 65x30cm) 1,5 USD .

Who has made what you find in the box

Coffee
This is fair trade coffee from Wild Tracks and Aranga Coffee Group.

Tea.
’Chai Bora’ is produced in the southern part of Tanzania and every family uses it for breakfast.

Brown sugar
The sugar is produced in Tanzania and is naturally following the coffee and the tea.

Table cloth
It is produced of Tanzanian cotton and designed at Sun Flag factory in Arusha town. It is sewed at Wild Tracks coffee factory.

Maasai jewellaries
Maasai wimen from Arusha area have produced the jewellaries and they are sold at Maasai Women Fair Trade Centre in Arusha. www.maasaiwomentanzania.org

Visit us!
You are welcome to our village for a daytrip in the name of coffee or you can choose to stay for a longer time. At the Aranga Coffee Group farm you will learn more about how coffee is growing. You can see the difference between the traditional way of growing coffee and the modern organic way. In the picking season (July – Jan) you can help with picking, washing and drying the coffee beans. For those who want to stay for a longer period we will take you to the bigger factories where they prepare coffee for the International auction. At our local Coffee Roasting Factory you will see the last process of how we roast, grind and pack the coffee. For those who want more than to learn about coffee we offer a home stay with a coffee farmer family. You will live together with your host family and work with them on their family coffee farm. It’s a unique experience to learn about the Tanzanian culture, their food, their way of living, their daily activities like going to the local market etc.

Please contact us for more details here.

See Program for 1 week here.

Plan to make your trip in the picking season (July – January). We can arrange for home stay from 1 night to several weeks. It can be from 1 person up to 6 (for bigger groups we will try to make special arrangement).

If you want to learn more about Tanzania and safari trips go here