About Us

It all started in 2015, when four of us, Lyson, Josh, Noel and Cameron, set up the MF Coffee Washing Station in Nkhota Village, northern Malawi. It's where we process the cherries grown by the team, mostly Noel and Lyson, just a hop, skip and a jump from Mantchewe Falls, one of Malawi's highest waterfalls and the 'MF' in our name.

Ever since, we've been experimenting with ways to grow, process and roast better coffee, and learning everything we can about an industry that badly needs shaking up.

Coffee is one of the most traded commodities in the world, but beans are often bought and sold many times before they reach your cup, with middlemen taking a bigger share than either the farmers or the people drinking it. On top of that, coffee is almost always roasted far from where it's grown, so most of its value ends up thousands of miles away from the people who grew it.

We're changing that by closing the gap between farmers, roasters and coffee drinkers, and building a fairer, more direct way to trade coffee. More than a decade on, we still work with the same farmers in Malawi. And since 2025, we've partnered with African Coffee Roasters in Kenya, who roast our Malawian coffee alongside Kenyan coffees we love from small family farms. Every bean is roasted in Africa, keeping more of its value right where it belongs.