Specialty coffee is overwhelmingly inefficient. This inefficiency might be the one unilateral criterion that makes certain coffee special and … More
Tag: growing coffee
Fat Neighbors
Some people have more money, resources, good looks, connections, and formative educational training than others. That’s life. In the case … More
Celebrity Farmers
Way back in the post Division of Decision I suggested that we don’t always know what me mean by the … More
Soundbytes from When Coffee Speaks
“When I was twelve my family had come here [to Cedral] to pick coffee on a man’s farm. I dreamed—we came up here to pick coffee, and I could hear the cows and the calves and everything, because there used to be more dairies. And I dreamed of one day coming back, to be able to hear the cows, to come back here to live. I wanted to live here. I prayed to God that I could live here!
Destroyed but Not Defeated
A few weeks ago I started a graduate program in English Literature, which admittedly has nothing to do with coffee … More
Another Year Later
At the end of October 2013 I self published 400 copies of “When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin … More
Trenches
I have been working as a “coffee writer” (covering craft, commodity, conversation and culture!) for about two years, but before … More
Ink Spotlight
This internet thing is cool, but there is something about ink on paper that—for me at least—will never go out … More
Nobletree Coffee Launches in Brooklyn
Get ready coffeepeople; there’s a new tree in town, and it is dressed for success. The coffee industry has gone … More
Para Entender Mejor
Preguntas como, “como es ser agricultor?” suelen se encuentran con respuestas descriptivas, pero cuyos descripciones son muy someras. Cuando … More
Seeds on Fire
I had the pleasure of spending last week in Antioquia, Colombia with 1,000 of the country’s next generation of coffee … More
Young Colombian Coffee Growers
I have the privilege of spending this week among 1000 young Colombian coffee growers in San Geronimo, Antioquia, as they … More
Let There Be Electricity
This is the third of three posts about the intersections between education and agriculture. The process of making a living … More
Mutually Supportive
In the previous post in Spanish, I tell the story of arriving on my friend’s family farm in the mountains … More
Seriously Seed to Cup
“Seed to cup” is the coffee industry’s equivalent of “farm to table,” a much used phrase intended to describe one … More
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