Thuti Coffee Factory is located in Nyeri County, Central Kenya. It is a relatively small processing station, with only 380 active members. It sits within the Thuti district at the foot of the Karima forest reserve, just northeast of Othaya Town. Thuti was founded in 1958, prior to Kenya’s independence from Great Britain. Nyeri is perhaps the best-known of the coffee producing central counties surrounding Mt. Kenya. Along the lower edge of the forests bordering the mountain, in wet & high elevation communities, mineral-rich soils help to produce what many believe to be the best coffees in Kenya.