About us
At Eunique’s, we are passionate about excellent organic products. We started out in 2015 with 500 arabica coffee plants to become one of the most vibrant organic farming businesses in rural Northern Uganda with a reach that spans across the world.
We conduct business responsibly and follow a systems approach. We acknowledge the needs of nature and people as our responsibility, and we see our farming business as a social hub for organic farming:
Local Impact and Knowledge Transfer
Eunique’s builds on the experience of Eunice Amenya – a successful, Ugandan female entrepreneur who has built Eunique’s Farm through her own efforts, with her ambition of driving positive local impact through education and employment. That’s why at Eunique’s we focus on knowledge sharing and collaboration for local women, youth, and other farmers from the community.
Experience and Exchange
We are steadily growing and want to open our doors to the community and public – for workshops, classes, or just for people interested in our vision of organic farming and living in harmony with nature and people
Organic
Our production strictly follows the principles of permaculture cultivation. We produce only organic certified, high quality products. We simply love good coffee, which is why our main production focuses on specialty grade arabica organic coffee of the best quality.
Direct Trade
When working with processors and other intermediaries, Eunique’s follows the principles of direct trade. This allows us to secure high salary standards for all our employees and a trusted, transparent relationship with all actors along the supply chain.
EUNIQUE'S MISSION: THE SOCIAL HUB
Promote Organic Farming — Empower Women & Youth — Link Consumers with Producers
In northern Uganda youth unemployment is rampant. In some communities 80 percent of households rely on subsistence farming.
Climate change increasingly makes reliable harvests unpredictable. And while women are responsible for most food production, they own very little land and often cannot access capital and loans. Eunique’s Oganic Farm is tackling development challenges at the grass root level.
Eunique’s Social Hub aims at….
… promoting organic agricultural practices across Uganda so that farmers are better prepared for climate change and variability. We want to run training and workshops, and collaborate with other organic agri-entrepreneurs on opportunities for knowledge and learning exchange.
… empowering women and youth from local communities with financial literacy and entrepreneurship workshops to increase farms’ productivity and households’ income.
… increasing transparency of the global coffee trade by reporting about grassroots farming practice, and increasing the representation of female producers’ voices in the discourse.
How?
- Locally: via Eco-Agritourism directly at our farm. Once construction is finished, come and stay with us or simply enjoy a cub of our organic coffee close to the River Nile.
- Worldwide: On Instagram and Facebook where Eunice will share real-time stories of her organic farming practices, processing steps, and other cultural, economic, and climate challenges farmers are facing on the ground.
Interested in Eunique’s training?
Want to learn more?
Reach out to us and get to know Eunice and Eunique!
EUNIQUE'S ROADMAP
EUNIQUE'S JOURNEY
A New Business Idea
Organic Approach for Quality Taste
Cooperation with Utamsti
First Coffee Harvest
Hibiscus Extention
Welcome Eunique's
Coffee Planting
Organic Mushrooms
Organic Champion
Drought
Research & Cooperation
Organic Soy Beans
Eunice grew up in a small village near Lira, and since she can remember, she has been engaged in agricultural activities. Like many other households in Northern Uganda, she farmed to provide food directly for her family, using whatever nature had to offer.
In recent years, she had to deal more frequently with late-onset or complete failure of entire rainy seasons due to climate changes. However, this challenge turned into one of her biggest passions: Today, Eunice is proud to integrate her self-gained knowledge on agriculture with organic farming techniques. She loves the engagement with other farmers and working with communities to raise awareness on sustainability, building their resilience.
Next to farming, Eunice is a passionate (and successful) cook! She loves to try out new tastes and flavors but her son, her nephew, and herself mostly enjoy the local cuisine: posho, beans, and boyo (spinach-like plant).
Not a big coffee drinker herself, she enjoys a hot hibiscus tea, preferably with her favorite Eunique’s product: fresh mushrooms!
EUNIQUES'S PAST
In search of generating a more sustainable income that would allow a promising upbringing of her son and nephew, Eunice linked her knowledge about farming, her passion for preserving nature with her entrepreneurial spirit, and problem-solving mindset.
She soon found interest in coffee – one of the world’s most promising cash crops. Since 2015, she has been growing coffee – pioneering it in northern Uganda, a region previously considered too dry to grow arabica coffee. In exchange with local communities, she has been exploring which varietals adapt to the local climate best, and analysing how larger-scale agriculture can be done without exploiting natural resources and in harmony with the environment’s capabilities.
The organic approach showed results: the excellent taste and quality of her products increased demand. Soon she expanded her small farming business, growing mushrooms, hibiscus, lemongrass, and ginger, and adding (e)unique flavor to her coffee and tea products.
In 2020 Eunice relaunched her business with a new, bigger vision: an extension of the farm not only allows her to grow more products and add value at source, it gives her the opportunity to actively engage with and train local youth, women and other farmers, spreading her vision about sustainability at the grassroots level.
Eunice also identified a big knowledge gap between the producers, farmers in her Ugandan community, and the consumers in faraway countries. Check here or on Facebook or Instagram to understand how coffee is grown and what challenges a Ugandan farmer faces.
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