Coffee farm tour- 1 day. Coffee tours in Uganda, one day coffee farm tou. Tour a coffee farm in Uganda and learn about how coffee is raised in a nursery. Learn about planting coffee, harvesting coffee, picking red coffee berries, drying coffee on raised coffee stands, pulping coffee berries to get honey processed or wet processed coffee.. Get a chance to learn firsthand how coffee is transformed from crop to cup.. We roast coffee beans the local traditional Ugandan way, grinding roasted coffee in a local mortar by hand, sieving the coffee and finally tasting freshly roasted and ground coffee.. Coffee un-adulterated on this one day coffee tour on one of the coffee farms in Central Uganda. You’ll get a chance to see coffee plants of both arabica coffee and robusta coffee both grown in the same farm. You’ll get to taste both arabica coffee and robusta coffee, both coffee with different coffee profiles and flavours.. Why not have the best of both worlds by blend robusta coffee with arabica coffee on this coffee farming experience.. We have accommodation at the farm and would be happy to have you spend a night at the coffee lodge learning about things coffee in greater detail. Join some of our local Ugandan coffee picking ladies the following morning, who will take you through their coffee farming experiences at the coffee farm. We rear animals at the farm including chickens, pigs, cows and goats which produce manure that supports our organic coffee farming aspirations.. Make an omelette from freshly laid eggs, have a cow milking experience and use the milk to have an americano coffee if you prefer a freshly made americano.. An unmissable coffee farm tour experience over either 1 day or 2 days.. stay with us for as long as you require.. bring your children with you and we teach them about all things coffee.
We arrange coffee farm tours at our two Bwami coffee plantations in Ssekanyonyi where we practice agroforestry; coffee grown within a tree plantation and in Kasanda where we practice regenerative coffee farming at our hybrid coffee plantation model that literally looks like a coffee forest. At our Bwami Coffee farm, coffee is planted within very small coffee spaces, using the Brazilian coffee plantation model and a hybrid spacing model of 6ftx6ft between coffee tree rows and from one coffee tree to the next.
Join one of our coffee farm tours and learn firsthand about how coffee seedlings are raised, how coffee is planted and looked after. You’ll get a chance to learn about things coffee, how to prune coffee, how to bend/train coffee, application of organic or artificial fertilisers in coffee, how to handle pests and weeds in coffee. You’ll also learn how specialty coffee is picked, pulped, fermented, sorted and dried on raised coffee drying stands.
Participants on our coffee farm tours, will then learn how to roast coffee the traditional way and how to ground the freshly roasted coffee in a local Ganda mortar called “Ekinu”. Freshly roasted coffee tastes the way coffee was meant to taste with awesome aromas, notes and flavours. Participating in our coffee farm tours with reveal to you all the hidden nitty gritty of making great coffee. The coffee on our coffee farm tours can then be served as black coffee or with milk from cows raised on our 2 Bwami coffee farms. Participants on our coffee farming experience tours, will have the opportunity of participating in milking before boiling the milk on a cooking stove powered from biogas produced from cow dung generated from cattle and goats reared at the farm. Sustainable, integrated coffee farming in Uganda.
Our coffee farm tours are usually led and conducted by one of our farm managers, resident agronomist or operations director, Marvin Ssenditta, all of whom are experts of growing coffee at our farms. Value added activities on the coffee plantation tour include picking your own red coffee cherries or potting coffee trees. The coffee tour ends with a unique coffee tasting and cupping experience in our coffee lab! Discover the flavours of Robusta coffee and our trail Arabica coffee in a whole new dimension!
Price
$40 per person – Individual coffee plantation tour participant
$20 per person – minimum of two coffee farm tour participants
$15 per person – minimum of five coffee farm tour participants
$10 per person – for more than 5 coffee farm tour participants.
For School groups/ education groups/ coffee organisations we charge US$100 per ground irrespective of group size.
Lunch is usually served and billed separately. Whole Goat roasting or whole pig roasting can be arranged upon request. The goats and pigs are reared at the Kasanda Bami coffee plantation.
Contact us to schedule a coffee farm tour.
orders@bwamicoffee.com
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