From the soils of Inomo,with both hands.

Eden Coffee did not begin with coffee. It began with the creation of the Dynasty by the political honcho, Yekosofati Atoke Engur, my grandfather, who was one of the political kingpins in the struggle for independence for Uganda.

As Won Nyaci, Paramount Chief of Lango, he championed agriculture, cooperatives, and community development on the sacrosanct belief that what people already possessed could become more valuable when they cooperate to gain advantage through economies of scale.

His son, Francis Atoke, a retired civil servant with a deep interest in large-scale agricultural farming and eager to fully implement the legacy initiated six decades ago, took over the "Agricultural Dynasty".

He started growing coffee in the rural village in Inomo, present-day Kwania District, by encouraging the local farmers to grow, amongst other things, coffee for commercial production. Yet coffee was never the whole of it — the Dynasty's fields and woodlands also carry timber, fruit orchards, maize and herds of cattle and goats, a working farm whose abundance stretches well beyond the coffee trees.

As the grandson, my generation chose enterprise. Having discovered the potential of cooperative farming, especially coffee production, Eden Coffee began with a simple question: Why should Uganda grow extraordinary things only for someone else to create the brand, own the customer, and capture most of their value?

So, we started with something Uganda has given the world for generations.

Coffee.

Grown in Inomo, Northern Uganda, built into a Ugandan brand, and now beginning its journey beyond our borders.

For us, Eden is not simply about selling coffee. It is about keeping more of the value, ownership, and story attached to where it began.