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Happy Coffee Bean is the Seeds for Development coffee project

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    Our goal is to connect coffee farmers and drinkers in an

    ethical chain of production, consumption and thinking.

    The story of the Happy Coffee Bean

     

    Our coffee story begins in 2008 amongst the mud hut villages of Amuru, Northern Uganda just after the 20 year war with The Lords Resistance Army ended. Our charity – Seeds for Development – was working with farmers as they rebuilt their lives after the war. In 2012, we planted 28,000 Robusta coffee seeds and launched our pilot project to grow coffee on a commercial scale for the first time in the region.

     

    That’s when we learnt that people mainly drink Arabica. We were growing the wrong coffee!

     

    Fortunately, over the hills in the West Nile region, more Seeds for Development farmers were growing Arabica. Our challenge was that they needed help to organise themselves into groups and have a co-operative system to sell it.

     

    Back in the UK, demand was growing. We had shared our story and people wanted our coffee. The hunt was on for the right partner, who shared our values of trust, transparency and traceability, to supply us with Arabica whilst we support the West Nile farmers as they get organised. It took a while, but finally nestled in the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon in Western Uganda, we found Bukonzo Joint; a wonderful co-operative of happy coffee farmers growing delicious organic coffee.

     

    We now have the pleasure of selling their coffee whilst helping develop vibrant and sustainable communities in Amuru and West Nile. 

    Watch this happy video to see what happened when the farmers of West Nile shared their dreams with us...
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    Alison Hall with coffee farmer
    Alison Hall with coffee farmer
    Seeds for Development Founder Alison Hall regularly meets the coffee farmers.
    Alison Hall visits Ugandan Coffee
    Alison Hall visits Ugandan Coffee
    Seeds for Development Founder Alison Hall regularly visits the coffee gardens in northern Uganda.
    Seeds for Development goat
    Seeds for Development goat
    Ugandan coffee roasting on the fire
    Ugandan coffee roasting on the fire
    Seeds for Development coffee farmers
    Seeds for Development coffee farmers
    Seeds for Development Farmers
    Seeds for Development Farmers
    Seeds for Development farm
    Seeds for Development farm
    Seeds for Development farm
    Seeds for Development farm
    Uganda coffee country
    Uganda coffee country
    Bukonzo coffee farmers Uganda
    Bukonzo coffee farmers Uganda
    Happy Coffee Bean
    Happy Coffee Bean
    Alison Hall with coffee farmer
    Alison Hall with coffee farmer
    Seeds for Development Founder Alison Hall regularly meets the coffee farmers.
    Alison Hall visits Ugandan Coffee
    Alison Hall visits Ugandan Coffee
    Seeds for Development Founder Alison Hall regularly visits the coffee gardens in northern Uganda.
    Seeds for Development goat
    Seeds for Development goat
    Ugandan coffee roasting on the fire
    Ugandan coffee roasting on the fire
    Seeds for Development coffee farmers
    Seeds for Development coffee farmers
    Seeds for Development Farmers
    Seeds for Development Farmers
    Seeds for Development farm
    Seeds for Development farm
    Seeds for Development farm
    Seeds for Development farm
    Uganda coffee country
    Uganda coffee country
    Bukonzo coffee farmers Uganda
    Bukonzo coffee farmers Uganda
    Happy Coffee Bean
    Happy Coffee Bean

    2019: Happy Coffee Bean - organic, ethical, hand-roasted coffee grown by farmers in Uganda :  No beans were harmed in the making of this website
     

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