Are organic farming practices the solution to improving soil health and productivity of coffee in Burundi? If it is, what would an intentional shift towards organic farming look like?
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Long Miles Coffee’s Post-Harvest Update: news from the farm, field, and cupping lab
What is Farmer Payday and why is it a significant event for coffee farmers in Burundi? Why is rain a big challenge for coffee export in Burundi? What processes occur at the dry mill?
Trees For Kibira: encouraging future generations of shade-grown Burundi coffee
There is an undeniable connection between coffee growers in Burundi, the health of their soil, and the coffee we drink. We’ve been dreaming about an indigenous tree reforestation project in Burundi for the last couple of years. For a long time, we didn’t know what it would look like. All we knew is what we …
Long Miles Coffee’s Post-Harvest Update: news from the coffee farm, field and cupping lab
What significance does September hold for communities of coffee farmers in Burundi? When can we expect our first container of Burundi coffee to leave the country? What’s the current concern at the dry mill?
Long Miles Coffee Harvest update: news from the coffee farm, field and cupping lab.
Our sixth harvest update, with recent news from the farm, field and lab. What post-harvest activities are coffee farmers and the Coffee Scouts working on? What were the challenges that impacted coffee production this year? How is the coffee tasting?
Building Ninga, our third Long Miles Washing Station
It took us close to three years to check off all the necessary paperwork and cross the bureaucratic red tape in order to start producing coffee at our Ninga Washing Station site. With the opening of coffee harvest in April and forty-five newly built drying tables, we started producing the first natural processed micro-lots of the season.