Coffee growing is a trade that has been woven into my DNA. I come from a long line of coffee farmers and roasters. As a child, my father would recount stories from his childhood in Ethiopia with infectious enthusiasm. Growing up in Canada, I developed a fascination with coffee and knew that it was a tradition that I wanted to continue. To learn more about my coffee heritage and my late grandfather, a proud coffee farmer, one of my first visits was to our family coffee farm in East Hararghe, Ethiopia, home to the region the coffee industry classifies as (Harar Coffee). This visit brought life and colour to the stories that my father had passed on to me.