Forbes has posted a blog that helps further explain the new prices you might see for your coffee (Not Bongo’s/BVRoastery coffee though). It reminds me of the land reforms of the Russia during the early 20th Century and more recently Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe. Brazilian land for Brazilians. [...]
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Photo by: jakeliefer, Creative Commons A recent article in the Christian Science Monitor highlights the difficulty that organic farmers are having in sustaining a market, and therefore are looking to go back to conventional coffee production. A lot of the transition comes down to a supply and demand. Roasters, like ourselves at the Buena Vista Roastery, [...] The video takes you through some of the process of production and generally describes the regions where coffee is grown. [...] A question when preparing for dry times is, ‘what does the raindrop do when it hits the [...] Wood Starch in Organic Cheese? Organic? The amount of red tape and ridiculous demonstration of proving ourselves as able to carry the words Organic on our packaging is unfathomable. Each year the Buena Vista Roastery spends thousands of dollars in fees and thousands more to jump through various hoops that are set up for us to [...] The Problem with Carbon Neutral Teak Tree Plantation I was searching the Internet for a little more information on some particulars of Guatemalan estate coffees yesterday when I came across a site that would happily make our Roastery ‘carbon neutral’. All I needed to do was tell them how many employees we had and our estimated [...] From the mountains of Uganda to your cup We’ve been really enjoying the new Ugandan coffee that just came in here at the roastery. This Organic and Fair Trade certified coffee is “a very pleasing light roast coffee with spicy hints of nutmeg and cinnamon with a woody undertone and a smooth chocolate finish.” High Altitude coffee This [...] The central Rockies have been oozing spring lately. One of our own Roastery family has been down the Narrows Section of the not-so-mighty-in-winter Arkansas River and Earl of CKS fame has been spotted kayaking in the Buena Vista playhole. We are dry in town and contemplating the garden, understanding that I have 2 or 3 [...] Elevation-Grown Bananas Erin has some bananas growing at 9000 feet in the heart of the Rockies. Her operation, Erin’s Geothermal Greenhouse, is looking to harvest a few naners sometime this spring. She’ll keep us posted. Our own banana tree sits in the window of our south facing window – I doubt it will produce fruit. We [...] We at the Buena Vista Roastery have found a perfect partner to our Organic Idido Misty Valley Ethiopian to blend a special offering, Mocha Java. We use our Java Monsooned, beans that are variegated in color with differences in the beans that cause us to roast slow and dark in order to ensure its rich, [...] |
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