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.
Coffee varieties are my thing! Here are some visits I have made to coffee research collections. I am a big fan of unusual coffee varieties
Some ambient scenes from the Kafa zone of Western Ethiopia, and a look at a couple nice farms. Sorry for silly introduction on my Kafa
A “sciency” look at the fruit of the coffee shrub, and the endosperm AKA “coffee bean” we so love to roast. I created these images
We sent a list of questions to our source for Yemen coffee, and what we received back was an amazing perspective on coffee and crisis.
Post-harvest practices are the subject of most of these coffee research papers, fermentation, drying coffee, roasting coffee and procedures to maximize quality There is a
A geeky macro video of the various grades and types of Kenya coffee. Some of this information can apply to wet processed coffee elsewhere too! -Tom
Coffee research articles focusing on coffee farming practices, plant health, organic techniques, coffee pests and fungus. There is a lot here, everything surrounding the coffee
Images from Academic Texts and research of coffee development and defective coffee beans. These images are from several sources as I recall, from the Illy
Tom talks about the unique harvesting methods on location at a farm near Sertão in Brazil.
Mechanical harvest methods are used in large parts of Brazil, on all scale of coffee farms. By and large, Brazil must innovate in their coffee
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