Climate-resilient coffee for the future
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Over the past weeks we’ve started moving from planning into actually building things on the ground. After the first dry season, the priorities are very clear now:water, shade, and basic infrastructure to keep the trees alive. Water SystemWe’re currently building out the revised watering setup based on what didn’t work in January.This includes:– a third […]
What didn’t work (and what we learned)Not everything we set out to do on this trip worked.The biggest gap was water. Despite preparation, we weren’t able to get the emergency dry-season watering system running. The pumps available locally didn’t match the head and distance we needed, and importing the right equipment on short notice wasn’t […]
I will be travelling to Sierra Leone for a short field visit to Stenophylla Farm Kenema. The visit will focus on checking in with Magnus and Hannah, assessing the current condition of the farm, and—most importantly—reviewing the progress of our Coffea stenophylla plants through the early dry season. Since my last visit in September, the […]
Farm Update – December 2025 The team in Kenema has been busy!Here’s what’s been happening on the Stenophylla Farm over the past weeks: Geo-tagging complete: All 3,000 Coffea Stenophylla saplings are now mapped with GPS coordinates. This gives us full transparency and long-term traceability for every plant on the farm. Dry-season preparations: Magnus and his […]
After a long journey from Switzerland to Sierra Leone, we finally arrived in Kenema — the heart of our Coffea stenophylla project. The first day on the farm felt truly special. Together with Hannah, Magnus, Samai, and Hazaratu, we began the process of geo-tagging the young Stenophylla plants — one by one. Using the KoboCollect […]
Big news from Kenema: together with Hannah Tarawally and our farm manager Magnus, we’ve just launched a GoFundMe campaign to support the next steps for our Coffea stenophylla farm. Coffea stenophylla is a rare, climate-resilient coffee species rediscovered in Sierra Leone. Research from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew shows it can handle hotter conditions than arabica, […]
How Far We Have Come From just an idea to seedlings in the ground, the Stenophylla Coffee Project in Kenema has already taken its first big steps. Together with local farmers, women, and youth, we are building something that connects Sierra Leone’s rich coffee history with a climate-resilient future. This is only the beginning. Much […]
