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 his coffee plantations. Along with the help of coffee scouts, he is able to manage pruning, mulching and applying fertilizer to his crops. However, there …
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 father of seven children. After dropping out of Don Bosco School in 1968, he moved in with his parents. In 1974, after their failed attempts …
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 end with roasting and brewing. We can do very little to control the environment, so our focus is on how we process coffees from different …
As highlighted in “Where has the coffee gone?”, 2021 was not the season we had all expected and hoped for. Production was devastatingly low, with cherry volumes at roughly half of what they should be for Long Miles to break-even. The financial challenges we faced, and continue to face, were compounded by the fact that …
Growing up, Aline didn’t know that one day she would work in the coffee sector in Burundi. She joined the Long Miles team back in 2014 as a supervisor of the teams hand-picking parchment coffee for defects.
Asterie has been a part of the Long Miles Coffee team since 2016. She first joined as a Coffee Scout, and six years later is leading the Heza Coffee Scout team.
