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Crow Flights
We’d like to think that airplanes have given us the capacity for crow flights, that because we can take a…
Water from Above
In Colombia I’ve spent about as much time in offices as I have out in cafetales. This project very early…
The Coffee Shelf
No direct trade coffee farm is complete without the coffee shelf. The requisite installation includes bags of beans from all…
Tea and Chocolate
Because sometimes you need a break from coffee* This isn’t about tea or chocolate (although I do kind of love…
The Magic Formula
…a magic formula…and an application. The Formula: Back in Juan’s World: Factor 90 and again in Worth I mentioned a…
Ingenuity is Sustainable
I feel like I’ve written about this several times- maybe in former blog posts or on examiner.com or just in…
Worth
Coffee pricing anywhere along the line is pretty much guesswork, but comparing numbers up and down the production chain…
The Lorax Takes His Coffee Iced
Maybe it’s because all the vegetation down here looks Seussical, but I’m having a Loraxy moment. The reason I support…
More on Juan
Life informs art informs life. And media being a form of art, albeit an emotionally and economically charged one,…
Roya Problems
Right now, thousands of coffee growing families across Latin America are facing a crisis. The coffee leaf rust “la roya”…
Eyelashes and Thresholds
In Spanish, the word for a tab on your internet browser is pestaña, which translates to “eyelash,” which I think…
When Coffee’s Bitter
Or, “That Time NPR Stole All My Ideas and Ran “Coffee Week” on an Established National Platform Before I Could…
Juan’s World: Roya, Broca, y Sr. Castillo
Juan’s World: A 5 Part Mini-Series on the Inner Workings of Colombian Coffee Part 5: Roya, Broca, y Sr. Castillo…
Juan’s World: Factor 90
Juan’s World: A 5 Part series on the inner workings of Colombian coffee Part 4: Factor 90 When coffee speaks…