Rwanda Green Coffee Beans for Home Roasting

At Green Coffee Collective, we make it easy to buy high-quality Rwandan coffee beans for home roasting. We offer a range of green coffee beans in 1kg batches and wholesale quantities, all sourced directly from reputable farms in Rwanda. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced home roaster, our platform provides a seamless way to explore and purchase beans that suit your roasting preferences.

You need to roast green coffee beans to bring out their rich flavours. At home, you can use a stovetop popcorn maker, oven, or a home roaster. Preheat your device and stir the beans consistently to ensure an even roast. As beans roast, you'll hear cracks signalling roast stages—from light to dark. Light roasts highlight fruity, acidic notes, while darker roasts offer bold, rich flavours. After achieving your desired roast, cool the beans quickly to preserve flavour. For more detailed tips, visit our blog post, How to start roasting coffee at home: all your questions answered!.

When buying green coffee beans for home roasting, start by choosing a reputable supplier with a diverse selection of fresh, high-quality beans. Look for suppliers with expertise in sourcing from sustainable and ethical farms. Consider flavor profiles, whether fruity, chocolatey, or nutty, to match your roasting goals. At Green Coffee Collective, we offer a rotating selection of premium unroasted beans, sourced from trusted producers. Our commitment to quality ensures you'll have access to the same top-tier beans used by professionals. Explore our latest green coffee offerings.

Coffee farming does not have an extraordinarily long history here, as with the other Lake region coffees of East Africa.  The first Arabica coffee tree in Burundi was introduced by the Belgians in the early 1930s and has been growing in the country ever since. Coffee cultivation is an entirely smallholder-farmer activity with over 700,000 families directly involved in coffee farming. 


Their combined total acreage is roughly 60,000 hectares in the whole country and planted with about 25 million coffee trees. In fact the rural population was legally obligated at one time to plant coffee; 50 trees per farmer. Burundi has struggled through the upheavals of decolonization and horrific civil war / genocide (reporting on this was sparse compared to neighboring Rwanda). And Burundi still has one of the lowest per capita incomes in Africa. 

This belies the stunning beauty of the place and the warmth of the people. The reorganizing of the coffee industry, with a revitalized cooperative system as well as private farms and mills, has echoed the development across the land. With so many lives linked to coffee production, gaining a better price for a better quality of coffee seems like an obvious improvement, and few places have the potential for great quality as Burundi.