STORIES
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A look inside a 2-5 Day Visit In Burundi
Written by Joy Maguvo, Story Team Leader at Long Miles Burundi A visit to Burundi with Long Miles Coffee isn’t…
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Celebrating Women in Coffee
For decades, farming coffee has been considered as a “man’s job”. This is not just the case in Burundi, but…
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A Farmer Story: Dorothée Sibomana
This blog post was written by Joy Maguvo, Long Miles Coffee Story Assistant. Dorothée Sibomana is a coffee farmer from…
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A Farmer Story: Apollinaire
This blog post was written by Joy Maguvo, Long Miles Coffee Story Assistant. Apollinaire Nzobonimpa is a coffee farmer from…
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A Farmer Story: Gervais
This blog post was written by Joy Maguvo, Long Miles Coffee Story Assistant. Gervais Mpabonimana is a coffee farmer from…
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Pruning and Mulching: Enhancing Coffee Productivity and Quality
In this post, Epaphras Ndikumana, Social and Environment Impact Manager for Long Miles Coffee walks us through the reasons for…
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A Look Into Hand Sorting
In our most recent blog post we presented a brief overview of the Dry Milling process; the final processing step…
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A Dry Mill Primer
As the coffee cherry coming into our Burundi washing stations slows to a veritable trickle, we enter into the less…
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Climate Change in East Africa Part 2: Exploring the impacts of climate change on the people behind your coffee
We have seen firsthand the devastation of climate change-induced weather events in the coffee regions of East Africa. Burundi is…
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Climate Change in East Africa, Part 1: Considering the impacts of climate change on East Africa
It is widely accepted amongst the scientific community that a warming climate will, at best, prove challenging for agriculture. At…
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DEEPENING CONNECTIONS
One of our core values is ‘Ubuntu’. The philosophy of ‘Ubuntu’ is applied in many cultures across East and Southern…
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Reduced Oxygen Fermentation
At Long Miles, although we uphold a pioneering spirit, we relish tried and true techniques and processes that we have…
