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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. [...] 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 [...] With the recent buzz about Ethiopian and Colombian harvests being down, we turn to Brazil. Brazil, one of the largest producers and the second largest consumer of coffee worldwide, often dictates the commodity pricing for the rest of the coffees. They set the stage, if you will. In 2008, the outlook for coffee was down [...] I recently read a blurb about a University of Michigan study that focuses on how shade grown coffee will help alleviate stress of weather extremes potentially resulting from the changing climate. The results of the study seem rather common sensical once you understand basics of systems thinking. I am not one to question to judgment [...] I am happy to say that I have been selected to serve on the SCAA Sustainability Committee for the next couple of years. A group of us from the coffee industry will work to progress efforts of sustainability – working with producers, suppliers, certifiers, roasters, retailers, etc. I am unsure who else is recently appointed [...] The Washington Post has an interesting op-ed this morning, by Vinod Khosla. You might need to be signed up with the Post to read the whole article. In his piece entitled, “All Biofuels Are Not the Same”, he answers a Wall Street Journal critique of his advocacy of subsidies for food-based ethanol. He says, Cellulosic biofuels [...] I read the following quote yesterday. It comes from a very respectable company that roasts coffee and sells it over the Internet and perhaps through some cafes and restaurants local to them, Organic farming is the art of holistically utilizing the systems and resources at hand to produce a crop that is the true, natural creation [...] |
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