One harvest each from the terraces of Haraz, the slopes of Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon, and Sidr honey from the wadis of Hadramaut. Bought direct from the families who grow it, roasted in California, and priced with the ledger open.
Whole lots from a named co-operative or family — cupped at origin, paid on shipment, never ninety days later.
Hermetic bags, the short route, and an independent laboratory sheet for every jar of honey before it is sold.
Roasted to order in California and sent with the numbers on the bag: what the farm got, what it cost to bring, what we keep.
No blends and no year-round house roast. Each coffee is one crop from one named place, roasted within days of your order and gone when the harvest is gone.
Dried fig, cocoa, cardamom, a long winey finish. The coffee that started coffee.
Blackcurrant, grapefruit, brown sugar. Bright, clean and unmistakably Kenyan.
Milk chocolate, red apple, honey. Round and generous — the everyday cup.
Three-coast set, one bag of each — $79 · Harvest subscription saves 10%, pause or cancel any time.
Our community has traded honestly for centuries because the ledger was always open. Ours is too: what the farm received, what it cost to bring here, and what we keep.
| per bag | Nyeri AA 12 oz | Haraz 10 oz |
|---|---|---|
| Paid at origin (green coffee) | $5.70 | $18.90 |
| Export, freight, customs | $0.60 | $2.40 |
| Roasting, bag, label | $2.80 | $2.80 |
| Packing and payment fees | $2.30 | $3.00 |
| Zeyn keeps | $10.60 | $17.90 |
| Your price | $22 | $45 |
Draft figures from current importer and auction prices, October 2026. Replaced by the real invoice numbers of each lot when it lands.
Once a year the Sidr trees bloom for a few weeks and the bees of Wadi Do'an make the most sought-after honey in the Arab world. We buy it by named valley and harvest date, and every lot travels with its laboratory sheet.
From the Red Sea coast of Yemen, down the Swahili coast to Mombasa and inland to the highlands. Traders from our community have worked this triangle since the age of the dhow. We are carrying coffee and honey along it again — this time, to America.
Coffee on stone terraces above 1,800 m, where families have been replacing qat with coffee trees since the 1990s. Honey from the Sidr valleys of Hadramaut, harvested in a few weeks each autumn.
Smallholder co-operatives on the slopes of Mount Kenya, washed and sun-dried at their own factories. We cup the lots in Nairobi during the auction season and buy whole outturns.
Washed Arabica from Sipi and Bugisu, bought through Kampala and railed to Mombasa. The most generous cup on the route, and the most affordable.
“Ply your trade according to the demands of this day and age.”
Zeyn was started by a young trader raised between Nairobi and the old trading towns of the Indian Ocean, from a community whose name — Bohra — literally means merchant. The idea is old and simple: find the best thing a place makes, pay its people properly, carry it carefully, and tell the truth about the price.
We begin with coffee and honey because they are the two things our three coasts do better than anywhere on earth, and because nobody is bringing them together, honestly, to the American table.
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No spam. One note per harvest, and a word when the ledger changes.Each bag names its place: the Haraz mountains of Yemen, a smallholder co-operative in Nyeri, Kenya, and the Sipi slopes of Mount Elgon, Uganda. We buy whole lots from a named co-operative or family and print the lot on the bag.
Because the farms are tiny, the terraces are hand-worked, the yields are low and the journey out of Yemen is long. The ledger shows the green coffee alone costs us more than three times a Kenyan lot. We price it so the farm is paid properly and we keep a fair share — not more.
Every lot is tested by an independent laboratory for origin and purity before it is jarred, and the results sit under the QR code on the jar. If a lot fails, it is not sold as Sidr.
Yes, by nature. Coffee and honey are single ingredients with nothing added. We use no flavourings, alcohol-based extracts or additives of any kind.
Orders ship from California within one to three business days. Shipping is a flat $10 in the US and free over $100.
Yemeni coffeehouses, halal grocers, hotels and corporate gifting — write to us with what you have in mind. Wholesale buyers see the same ledger you do.