When we first built our original washing station in 2018, we never realised how quickly we would run out of space.
In 2022, we made the decision to move to a much bigger location, 400 meters from our old site (which we demolished), so we can work with the same community and the same farmers (and many more). As you can see, our area is stunning but still incredibly hard to reach. It was initially only accessible by footpath so we had to build a 500m road!
Watch how we did it!
Ever wondered how specialty coffee is produced? Watch this video to see how our delicious coffee is made! Let us know any questions you have in the comments below!
Photo and Video Credit to Panos Karakitsos www.panoskarakitsos.com i: panos_photography
This video about The Coffee Gardens was produced by the wonderful and talented Annie Langford, during her time with us during the summer of 2018. The video was filmed in our first year, even before we built our processing station!
This “DIY” video will give you a glimpse into the work that took place during the harvest season to get our coffee ready for you to drink!
Dana and Shak's presentation in Berlin on wide range of topics: from the history of the coffee industry in Uganda, to the improvement of the coffee cherrries quality, building trust with farmers or processes behind our signature washed and experiments.
In the second part of the presentation Shak and Dana talk among others about the export price breakdown, tools to ensure traceability and transparency, and about our off-season activities: financial services, trainings, support of the village savings and loans associations,…
Videos
Sankalp 2021 featured Shakeel on a panel alongside representatives from the East Africa Community, EU Commission and major Development Banks, discussing access to finance in East Africa (start at 45mins).
Digital Coffee Futures hosted a webinar on “How can digitalisation be implemented in the coffee sector?”, with our Co-Founder Shakeel on the panel.
CNN Marketplace Africa featured The Coffee Gardens’ work on improving the sustainability and traceability of coffee in Uganda (S05 E42)
Our friends at Roasting House created this great video to promote our coffee.
The Coffee Gardens’ Youtube Channel has all our videos too.
Articles
Masters students at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2023-24 looked into the work we are doing to promote formal savings within our farming community.
Café Africa mentions us in their Review and Analysis of policies, strategies, attitudes, practices and institutions for strengthening coffee agroforestry in Uganda as one of the case studies including organisations that promote coffee agroforestry among smallholder farmers.
An interview with Dana on Czech Radio: “Ugandan Coffee with the Czech Touch".
Masters students at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2022-23 built us a monitoring and evaluation framework to measure our impact and to provide farmers with individual score cards to track their own improvements over time.
Capital Coalitions conducted a “Natural Capital” Impact Analysis to assess and quantify our environmental impact on society (Dec 2022).
Claire-Anaïs Garnier (Mar-June 2022), prepared a report on coffee production in Uganda and where The Coffee Gardens fits in.
Masters students at the London School of Economics and Political Science conducted research in 2021-22 to understand if and how our business model and social programs offer additional value to the community and how these programs impact farmer loyalty.
Masters students at the London School of Economics and Political Science conducted research in 2020-21 on whether The Coffee Gardens is an example of how the private sector be an effective vehicle for sustainable rural development.
The Specialty Coffee Association commissioned us to write an article sharing our experiences of the challenges and opportunities of coffee production in Uganda.
International Trade Centre wrote an article discussing our efforts to access finance, in order to deliver more impact for our farmers.
A piece in Barista Magazine’s Aug/Sept 2020 Edition highlights the work we are doing on improving transparency through technology (p33).
The London School of Economics published our blog post on how our business model attempts to tackle poverty amongst coffee growers in Uganda by focusing on quality.
The LSE’s Department for International Development Student Society (DESTIN) President wrote a piece about a presentation we gave at the University in March 2019.
Leading Italian Think Tank ISPI (Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale) published a piece written by our Co-Founder Shakeel on our experiences of living through the COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda,
Lidovky.cz published a piece on Dana talking about her experience of working and running a business in Uganda.
BirdSong Coffee, our longtime customer, interview The Coffee Gardens on the potential of Ugandan coffee.