STORIES
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Bounty From Upcountry
I love the quality and the volume of veggies we pile into the car while doing our roadside shopping on the way home from the LMCP washing station. It’s one…
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Coffee Cupping 101 With Long Miles Coffee Project
I’m in it to find the best cups on the table and in Burundi and then to make sure those farmers are rewarded for their great work. That gets me…
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Our Family Rule On Swimming With Hippos: Just Don’t
We don’t often find ourselves on sailboats out on Lake Tanganyika, but one sunny weekend day (months ago) we did. Back then the washing station wasn’t even fully built. It…
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Early Payday For Burundi Coffee Farmers
We ventured out into rural Burundi as a family last weekend to make early payments to the coffee farmers who are delivering coffee cherries to the new washing station. For…
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A walk around town and a washing station update.
We took a walk around the town of Bukaye, the closest town to our coffee washing station site, (which is now less of a site and more of an ACTUAL…
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A Sneak Peek At Our Incredible Rebrand | Jason Grube
It’s been a long time coming. We’ve barely ever even had a working logo, let alone consciously directed branding. When Jason Grube decided to come on board to help us…
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Happiness Is My (New) Old Beat Up Land Rover
I’m not entirely sure why buying a car with only one working door, a ridiculously torn interior, a Flinstone-esk floor, a broken backseat and the roar of a tractor has…
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Day 1: Building A Burundi Coffee Washing Station
We are too tired to move or write much after today, but WOW what progress in our first day building this coffee washing station here in rural Burundi. Thanks for…
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We Own The Land + Dukomezi Bikogwa
Dukomezi Bikogwa Means “Keep Working Hard” in Kirundi. Writing has been such hard work for me in the last few weeks, as anyone following this blog may have noticed. We have…
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Land for Burundi Coffee
Following @kristyjcarlson on Twitter and Instagram gets me excited about being part of this family of four that has their hearts set on helping a community in rural Burundi produce…
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Focus: Building a Coffee Washing Station in Burundi
There is a reason why this coffee washing station matters. There is a community here in Burundi whose lives are on the brink of truth and hope and all things…
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Burundi Coffee Farmer Story | Rosato Rugoke
This is Rosato and he’s a Burundi coffee farmer…When he looked into my camera lens, I felt like I saw his entire soul just hanging out in the open. Like…
