This grouping features a range of topics related to farming coffee… or even growing at home! It is about the plant, not just the green bean, and approaches to coffee planting. We call this section coffee plant agronomy.
Thompson and Lucia Solis chat about the complicated relationship of the coffee buyer and the farmer, and the culture of coffee sourcing. Making Coffee is
Our latest podcast episode (#42!) is a bit different … there is an audio-only version and a YouTube version with accompanying pictures / videos. This
Taking time to stop and smell the coffee (blossoms) I was thinking about my departure later this week for Kenya, then on to Ethiopia. I
A 5 minute conversation downstairs on roast color at Sweet Maria’s shop ends up as a 26 minute video on roasting dry-process coffee and uneven
For this harvest-time trip, I created “video portraits” of a few coffee farms and farmers we source from. Get to know your coffee farmer better!
A dramatic pruning of coffee all the way down to the stump is important to keep the tree producing coffee cherry. Why do so few
On my December trip around rural Ethiopia, I recorded some travel notes and related thoughts over my morning coffee. Here they are… Traveling to Ethiopia
On a trip like this I take 3500 photos. I’ll spare you the grand tour: Here are 27 photos with special descriptions I wrote. I
On my December trip around rural Ethiopia, I recorded some travel notes and related thoughts over my morning coffee. Here they are… Traveling to Ethiopia
Sweet Maria’s supports an Ethiopian coffee initiative to encourage farmers to regenerate their trees by pruning them down to a stump. Here’s why that matters
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