About Still On My Mind Coffee

When I was around 9 years old me being a little rascal which was my favorite show. My grandmother would make coffee on the stove with her percolator and the smell would fill the room. I would ask her what is that she would say coffee. One morning. She left that cup on the counter. As I mentioned earlier the rascal in me had to taste it. From that moment on I was hooked to that smell and that intriguing taste. Some almost forty years later I discovered a new much better understanding of what, where, how coffee got to your cup.I started in the coffee business from a different perspective. 

In 2013 while working in Iraq with men from Iraq, Peru, Uganda, Kenya, Philippines, and India. Every morning we would have coffee to get the day started. Then later that morning we would have coffee again with Iraq soldiers which was very strong brewed Turkish style. One day we got into a conversation about who has the best coffee Peruvians said they had the best, Kenyan said they had the best and that coffee is originally from Africa. Then the Ugandans said they have the best and that Robusta breed was born in Uganda and all other breeds grow wild everywhere there. Then the Ugandans stated that the mother of their coffee and all other coffees is Ethiopia which is the birthplace of coffee. Then the Iraqi soldiers said that their coffee is from Uganda. 

 To make a long story short I had been looking into investing in Uganda. Knowing land was cheaper there than the other places. So, in 2014 I invested in 2 hector's land. In 2015 while taking a walking survey of land I notice approximately 400 unkept coffee trees. Two month later we had the land cleared except for approximately 300 of the upkept coffee trees. Week later we planted 1000 coffee trees with 200 banana trees as shade.  In 2016 we had a farmhouse/ storage facility built and open a feed store out in town with the idea that both the farm livestock and the feed store revenues will be used to maintain the coffee trees and pay farm workers. In 2017 we purchased quarter hector land off the main road leading to coffee farm. This land had eight fairly maintained large coffee trees, four Mango trees, three large Avocado trees and a small building which we moved the feed store to. In 2018 when I went to check out the farm and store, I notice things that my partner said that was complete wasn't and the seven workers were down to three and the farm was not well maintained. Also, five thousand dollars of money I had sent was missing from the books. As I continued checking the books, I noted that the same items were in two different books with different dates and some items with same date but different cost. Also, the cost of items for the feed store was the same price throughout the whole year. This is when I requested an audit of all farm and store operations. A couple days later My partner and I met with an accountant and we agreed she will do the audit. The next day I left heading home, while in the airport it dawned on me that my partner had mentioned about opening another feed store in Jinja. At that moment I contacted him and asked why you want to open another store if the current store is not making a profit. He explained that the other store will be in much better location and that he will be operating. After that call I was not able to get a hold of him for a week and half. Doing that time, I spoke to Jimmy the farm/ feed store manager, he also stated that he as not been able to reach him and that he has not returned any of his calls. Let me end this long store and say that as of this date, I am still in a Legal battle with my so-called friend partner. In 2019 I purchased two Allio R 2 Roasters one for me and the other for my brother who live in Madison, Wisconsin.