STORIES
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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 the world over.
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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 Gaharo Hill. In most countries, it’s more common to see…
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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 Nkonge Hill in Burundi and is very involved in maintaining…
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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 Kabuye Hill. He is 69 years old and is the…
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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 Pruning and Mulching…
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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 before coffee is placed into bags, ready for export. In…
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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 talked about, less photographed, and less glamorous portion of the…
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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 ranked 171 out of 181 countries for risk of climate…
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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 worst, many regions will no longer be able to produce…
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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 Africa. Its meaning can be translated as “I am, because…
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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 worked hard to master. We are so excited with the…
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FLAVORS OF EAST AFRICA
There are a myriad of factors that can impact the flavors that end up in your cup of coffee. Influences on taste start with the growing environment, then processing, and…
