Damien is a seventy-seven-year-old coffee farmer from Nkonge hill in Burundi who seems to carry his walking cane, worn leather hat and good sense of humour everywhere he goes. The last time that Damien held a copy of his photograph was when he applied for his national identity card in the early 1960s.
When she was just sixteen years old, a student named Emilienne fell in love and dropped out of school, choosing marriage over her schoolbooks. In 1993, just four years later, she tragically lost her young husband to the civil war ensuing the assassination of Burundi’s first democratically elected president.
Apollinaire has grown coffee for more than four decades but rarely had the chance to taste it. Like many other coffee farming parents in Burundi, Apollinaire has gone to great lengths teaching his children how to grow and care for coffee
October 24, 2020 is a day that will go down in the history books of Long Miles Coffee. The date marks the launch of Long Miles Kenya, and our first day of coffee harvest in Kirinyaga County.
We have been thinking about building a coffee washing station on Ninga hill for years. Looking back, it has taken us close to seven years to make it happen.
There are women farming coffee on Gikungere hill who are tearing down the walls that were once built up around them.
