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I can’t say this has been an exceptional week. I was on the phone with Wesley from Cooked in Africa Films and he could pick it up over the phone. ”You don’t sound your positive self Ben.” And I haven’t. It’s not so much the sheer mountain of logistics and details to organize, though the…
At the risk of sounding vain, I am going to share with you that one of my highest values is aesthetics. Just staring at beautiful things… man made or made by God fills my soul. The mountains, the lakes, the palm trees, the veins of a leaf, the sun light through the trees… and the…
Feeling this with you, sister! Please keep us posted so we can carry you in prayer through this journey. LOVE you
As far as taking food is concerned, Ben should load the passenger seat with hot wings from Chickin’ Lickin’!
I love you. x
This post made me realise that you guys are really going! Dang it no more little room by the stairs. Oh well atleast I have an exotic location to visit. I use the word exotic very loosely!!
Often I get asked “how did you get started in coffee?” The answer lies beyond the buckets of Folgers that were brewed like a religious call to worship each morning as I grew up. I guess the real start would have to lay next to the Mississippi river in the small university town of…
ahhh, yes. http://www.woolworths.co.za own up and coming design genius Lou Lou has a part to play and a story to tell in the whole Long Miles saga. stay tuned.
Ben I don’t see any mention of me in your story. You know our deal about your coffee story!!!!
Maxwell House and a can or two of Chuck Full of Nuts?
Buckets! bucket! buckets of Folgers? I will have you know there was a little Maxwell house mixed in there.
Hey hunny, I thought I was the best part of your college education! -Kristy
In my last post I told you that as a family, we needed some change. But of all the places in the whole of the world, why Burundi? Well, because we needed to face our fears and do it anyway! Because it would be easy to stay in Durban, grow old in Durban doing the…
reading as much as i can about you guys and your dreaming, and loving it! meeting you guys was a highlight of the summer for us, we hope God keeps all of us on new roads and adventures till the end 
and i must say that you, ben, look so very WHITE in that picture with all the burundi folk 
Oh No Ben!!!!You better find out about all that kind of stuff before I visit Ok!!
As I ate the goat the guy sitting next to me leans over and says “this is probably the best way to get hepatitis.” nice. Ben
Doesn’t “Happy Muzungu” mean “Happy White person”? I like the meat hanging under the picture of the happy Muzungu. Thats all you need to make a happy Muzungu…lots of meat!!
Thanks Heather. They are from my first coffee trip into the hills of Burundi. It’s a photographically spectacular place. We hope you and Jon will make it! -Ben
Beautiful photos.
… at the beauty of coffee making and the talented barista’s that do it. all images Kristy Carlson.
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Susan J Carlson - Well, Grandma has read the post. God be with you, Ben, and you at home, Kristy + + plus boys.
Danae - Amen! Thank you for clarifying.
longmilescoffee - The threats came to an unscrupulous buyer from a “rival” European company that essentially screwed over a large section of farmers in Burundi this year. They gave low prices for the farmers coffee cherries without them knowing it was not going to the washing station that I am going to be working with and gives good end of year premiums. So when the farmers came to the washing station to collect their bonus/premium at the end of the season… nothing. Lots of angry, and rightfully so, farmers who are living on literally next to nothing. Moral of the story: be transparent in everything.
Danae - This may or may not be a dumb question…but why would a non-Burundian receive death threats for doing what he’s doing?