Burundi Giku Lot5 Washed

GIKU
Giku Hill is located 15 kilometers (about 9 miles) from the Long Miles Bukeye Washing Station, crossing two rivers and provincial borders. Despite nearby rivers, local communities lack access to clean drinking water and electricity. Coffee is the main crop, alongside corn and beans. About 54 kilometers (34 miles) away, the Kibira Forest, Burundi’s only indigenous rainforest, offers a stunning backdrop to this vital coffee-growing region.


FROM LONG MILES COFFEE
"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 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 a 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 upon year.
Coffee holds so much potential. It has the ability to change a landscape and transform a people, but it is so easy to feel distant from the origin of your coffees and the impact your purchase makes on coffee-growing communities. We understand your need for both transparency and great coffee, which is why we started Long Miles Coffee as a farmer-driven coffee production model back in 2013. In our first coffee season we worked with just fifty coffee farmers, we now work directly with over 14,000 coffee farming families on traceable and unique hills within Burundi, Uganda, and Kenya."