Repair 400 Homes & Erosion at Heza After Flooding

Our founders, Ben and Kristy Carlson, moved to Burundi in 2011 and saw that 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. To us, coffee production is a combined effort that takes into account the needs of coffee farmers and the needs of the roasters we work with worldwide. When you trust us with a coffee order not only do you get thoughtfully produced coffee, but you directly impact coffee farming communities. Beyond that, you have the opportunity to build relationships with specific hills and those who grow coffee there, year after year. Coffee holds so much potential. It has the ability to change a landscape and transform people, but it is so easy to feel distant from the origin of your coffee and the impact your purchase makes on coffee-growing communities. We understand your need for transparency and great coffee, so we started Long Miles Coffee as a farmer-driven coffee production model in 2013. During our first coffee season we worked with just fifty coffee farmers, we now work with over 5,500 coffee farming families on eleven unique hills within Burundi, with expansion efforts underway into Uganda and Kenya. We create traceable micro-lots that yield consistently great coffees while improving the livelihoods of the small-holding farmers who grow them.