BUMBA HILL

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 and roasters lives, Long Miles Coffee was born.

Long Miles Project s a farmer-driven coffee production model. They work with coffee farming families on eleven unique hills within Burundi. Long Miles create traceable micro-lots that yield consistently great coffees while improving the livelihoods of the small holding farmers who grow them. Here are three of the most important ways to do this:

1. The farmers who grow coffee on the eleven hills receive year-round&nbsp agricultural assistance through one of the twenty-six Long Miles Coffee Scouts who are trained agronomists.
2. Long Miles pay higher prices for coffee cherries as well as annual premiums.
3. They strengthen relationships between roaster and farmer so they can serve coffee from a specific hill year after year.