Coffee. People. Potential.
Our founders, 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 for both farmers and roasters, Long Miles Coffee was born.

Long Miles Coffee Projects

Long Miles was founded with the vision of seeing meaningful and lasting change in the lives of Burundian coffee farmers and the coffee that they produce. However, we’ve recognized the need to deeply understand the existing situation for coffee farmers in order to begin to understand any impact that we will have in their lives.

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