Moy Hall

Moy Hall, in Cedar Valley, St Thomas, is associated with two separate coffee producers that share the name. One is a coffee factory built for a farmer cooperative; the other is Moy Hall Estate Coffee, a brand grown and sold by a private family company. This guide treats them separately to avoid confusion.

The Moy Hall Coffee Factory and its cooperative

The Jamaica Information Service reported in 2004 that the Moy Hall Coffee Factory, in Cedar Valley, St Thomas, hosted the annual general meeting of the Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative that year. The cooperative had grown sharply in the years before: its production rose from 8,000 boxes of coffee in 1998 to 44,000 boxes by 2004, drawing on about 3,000 farmers, up from only 200 in 1998. To keep pace, the factory had added night shifts running from 5pm to 11pm and employed more than 90 people per shift. In 2004 it completed a new storage building of 464.5 square meters, holding up to 60,000 boxes of coffee beans and fitted with five dehumidifiers to control moisture. The Jamaica Information Service reported that the cooperative marketed coffee internationally under a brand called Penlyne Castle, with supply contracts naming two Japanese buyers, identified in the report as Toyota and Ataka. This guide could not confirm the cooperative's current scale or operating status.

Moy Hall Estate Coffee and Nakashka Coffee Company

Separately, Moy Hall Estate Coffee is grown by Nakashka Coffee Company, run by Courtney and Paula Fletcher, who began farming coffee there in 1994. The Jamaica Gleaner reported in 2024 that the company had long exported about 90% of its crop, to markets including Japan, the United States, Switzerland, Belgium and China. Courtney Fletcher, who the Gleaner describes as the farmer in charge, attributes the coffee's quality to the district's elevation and micro-climate. This guide could not confirm a specific elevation figure for the farm from a reliable source, so none is given here.

How Moy Hall's coffee reaches buyers

According to the Gleaner's 2024 report, Nakashka began selling packaged coffee domestically in 2013 while continuing to export, and by 2024 Paula Fletcher, the company's vice-president, said the brand, sold as "King of the Blue Mountain," had expanded into Kingston, Montego Bay, Mandeville and Ocho Rios after demand grew beyond its original Kingston market.

Does Moy Hall receive visitors?

This guide found no source confirming public tours or farm visits at either the cooperative's factory or Nakashka's estate. Readers should not assume a visitor program exists at either site without checking directly.

Why two producers share the Moy Hall name

The overlap is a reminder that a single place name in the Blue Mountains can cover more than one business. Cedar Valley, where Moy Hall sits, is farming country in the St Thomas hills, and both the cooperative factory and Nakashka's private estate draw on coffee grown in that same district, even though they are organized very differently: one as a cooperative built to aggregate output from thousands of small growers, the other as a single family's export and retail brand. Readers researching either one should check which Moy Hall a given source is describing before assuming the facts apply to both.

Moy Hall sits within the same St Thomas coffee country described in St Thomas: Blue Mountain coffee in the east, not far from Hagley Gap and Penlyne. For other named producers, see the estates and coffee works directory.