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 all the well wishes friends, we FEEL them. Thank you! If you would like to support this project by drinking coffee, please buy Dogwood Burundi coffee online …
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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 been consumed with the details of making the coffee washing station here in rural Burundi a reality. Mix that with motherhood,writing for the always lovely …
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 amazing coffee. I’m so happy to be a part of it. Building a coffee washing station in Burundi has meant taking on an obscenely huge …
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 good in this world. Not that this coffee washing station is their way to the ultimate Hope, but it has been dreamed up and steeped …
Let’s Build A Coffee Washing Station!
We are beginning something that makes our family pretty close to giddy. Giddy is really not my thing. I’m the Midwestern American stoic type… (with a strange leaning towards living room dance parties). But this…. This project makes me want to stand up on a couch somewhere and shout “Yes!” What is it? We are …