Vista Espresso

In 2013, Long Miles Coffee opened the doors of their first washing station, Bukeye, in the Kayanza province of Burundi. From the start their goals were decisive; work within rural coffee growing communities to improve standards of living and coffee quality by sharing knowledge, providing better processing, and offering a higher pay for green coffee. That first year of production they only worked with 50 farmers, but now they work directly with more than 14,000 coffee farming families within Burundi, Kenya, and Uganda.

Burundi, with its high altitudes, temperate weather, has always been considered a country that can produce incredible coffees. But injustice and poor farming practices that permeated the country’s newly privatized coffee industry made it difficult for roasters to be able to connect with growers and source high quality coffee. Long Miles Coffee works to fix that with their farmer-driven coffee production model, providing better access for farmers to get more for their harvest, increasing the quality and connecting them with roasters around the world. This coffee is a beautiful example of what coffee from Burundi can offer and we are super excited to be able to share it with you!