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Overview
Bula Coffee was founded in 2011 by New Zealand-born Luke Fryett (now a dual NZ/Fiji citizen) after he found wild coffee cherries falling and rotting in the Sigatoka Valley highlands during horseback rides through Fiji's interior. From a 20-kilogram first harvest roasted on a microwave-sized roaster in a village, Bula now harvests wild and managed coffee from 38+ remote Fijian villages supporting roughly 1,500 to 5,000 pickers, and is the first and only Fiji producer to display both 'Fijian Grown' and 'Fijian Made' marks on its products.
Known for
- Fiji's only 100% Fijian-grown and Fijian-made coffee operator
- Wild-harvested coffee from forests of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu without land clearing
- Cherry-to-Cup tour at the Sigatoka HQ, launched April 2022, walking visitors through harvesting, processing, and tasting
- Social-enterprise model paying remote villages directly — including FJ$32,000 paid to one cyclone-hit village
- Tauriko, NZ secondary roastery and Bula Cafe opened 2025 to scale international sales back into Fiji
Why it matters
Bula is the proof case that Pacific Island coffee can be a real specialty category, not a souvenir. Fryett's social-enterprise build — from 20kg in year one to thousands of village pickers — is also a working template for how wild-harvest plus managed plantings can preserve forest ecosystems while creating durable village income.
Production
- destoning
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- head roaster
- Luke Fryett (founder, splits time between Fiji fieldwork and international trade)
- color sorting
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- roaster machine
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- filter equipment
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- cupping frequency
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- roastery location
- Sigatoka, Fiji (plus Tauriko, Tauranga, New Zealand)
- espresso equipment
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- annual volume tonnes
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Café
Bula Coffee HQ, Coral Coast, Sigatoka, Fiji (plus Bula Cafe at Matakokiri Drive, Tauriko, Tauranga, NZ)
Recognitions
- First and only Fijian producer with both 'Fijian Grown' and 'Fijian Made' designations
Sources
- https://www.bulacoffee.co/
- https://bulacoffee.com.fj/
- https://www.baristamagazine.com/exploring-the-wild-harvests-of-fiji-with-bula-coffee/
- https://sunlive.co.nz/news/368539-the-bula-coffee--coming-home-to-roast-in-tauranga.html
- https://www.fijitimes.com.fj/turning-coffee-into-gold/
- https://www.usp.ac.fj/wansolwaranews/news/fryett-confident-in-fiji-grown-coffee/
- https://fijitraveller.com/eat-and-drink/bula-coffee-changing-lives-one-cup-at-a-time/
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