History of Coffee    

Legend has it, there was a holy man called Bunno, one of the son’s of Meecha clan (todays keffa area). He lived around the town Bunno-Badale. That holy man died with tragic accident by bull, tears of the Almighty God dropped on his grave, years later a tree has grown on his grave with reddish berry fruits and named after the holy man. Bunna is a local name of coffee in Ethiopia. Coffee is seen as the flesh of Bunno and trears of the almighty God. Long after; in the highlands of Ethiopian a place called Keffa, approximately 1,500 years ago, a goat herder called Kaldi discovered the energetic effects of coffee. After some of his goats ate the red berries from coffee tree, they became very lively and playful. Kalid took the berries to the closest monastery where the monks disapproved of their use and threw all the berries into fire. Suddenly the air was covered with an amazing aroma. The roasted beans were quickly raked from the berries, ground up and dissolved in hot water, yielding the world’s first cup of coffee.