We are coffee producers. Within our company, coffee production takes three different roads. The first road, modeled in Burundi, includes washing station ownership. In Burundi, we work with 5,500 smallholding farmers, who each grow less than a bag of coffee per annum, to produce and bring to market the coffee they grow. To accomplish this, …
People
Our founders, Ben and Kristy Carlson, moved to Burundi in 2011 and saw that both injustice and poor farming practices permeated the country’s newly privatized coffee industry. They also saw that roasters around the world had a difficult time getting consistently great coffees from Burundi. In an effort to see positive change in both farmers’ …
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.