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Young Tree Coffee: June 2010
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Saturday, June 26, 2010. Africa is a Country. The ignorant masses in the US that refer to Africa as a country might be more right than you think. I currently have had the privilege of watching world cup soccer every night with a Ugandan announcer from my hotel room. When ever an African country plays, they play for all of Africa. The Mobile Phone sponsor MTN's slogan is, "Our Flags are different, but our dream is the same". Yes, Robusta can be great. There is a ubiquitous bird that is a cross between...
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Young Tree Coffee: January 2011
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Sunday, January 23, 2011. So that you know. The harvest at Finca La Paz. Is over for this year. The yield was a bit less than last year. I was there for the prep of the farm and I have been following weekly updates about picking, processing, weather, dry times, weather, rain, cloud cover, processing, weather, and more weather. On average the coffee took over two weeks to dry. This is good for the green life of the coffee. The natural process was the last one to finish. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Young Tree Coffee: February 2010
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Monday, February 22, 2010. SERBC: Mission accomplished, target missed. SERBC (South East Regional Barista Championship). So I had a few intentions entering the SERBC: 1) Get to know my coffee and how it behaves as espresso 2) Tell my story 3) Spend some time behind the espresso machine. I was able to do all of those. I've had the farm for almost three years now, and only in the last week was I able to try my coffee enough to learn a little about how it responds as espresso. Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
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Young Tree Coffee: Coffeeland Honduras Coffee Documentary
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Coffeeland Honduras Coffee Documentary. I would never do this if I didn't feel strongly. At the very least I'm posting this in a place that gets very little traffic and largely abandon by me, the author. After hearing about this buzz. 1) A poor community will never say no. Never ever. I have years of non-profit experience and not only in the DR. Walk up to any poor community say, do you want this? They will say, Yes. 2) Agronomos son plaga. Probably not. Traditionally trai...
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Young Tree Coffee: April 2010
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Thursday, April 22, 2010. Dominican Coffee for Sale from Finca La Paz. Yes It is true. My coffee is for sale. For years now people have asked where they can buy my coffee and I had to tell them to wait. Wait until I had a product. Currently I've been selling my time as a consultant and that is going well, but now after years of effort I actually have coffee for sale from my farm. I have a great partnership with 1000 Faces Coffee. 1000 Faces should break even after all is said and done. They had to de...
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Young Tree Coffee: March 2010
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Sunday, March 28, 2010. Small is beautiful, but . . . Well, in the interest in transparency, I don't really support Air Freight because of the environmental and fiscal costs, however I've found it necessary for my coffee this harvest because of timeliness and financial cost. I need the coffee here before I compete in in Anaheim for the US Barista Championship. Small is beautiful, but damn, it is expensive. Saturday, March 13, 2010. Export prep (hand sorted), done. LTL Export, next. The article Edwin Mart...
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Young Tree Coffee: March 2011
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Sunday, March 13, 2011. Are a couple thousand of my words. I try to cover planting coffee from two different perspectives: 1) large scale 2) smaller scale. Page 66-71. If you have 15 min, give it a read and let me know what you think. I'm working on a longer post to say how things have changed on Finca La Paz since writing that article. The photos are of my last trip where I did some pruning, export prep and general catchup on the farm. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Young Tree Coffee: December 2009
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Monday, December 21, 2009. Seed Prep Theory Part II. This might seem really obvious but it did strike me as insightful recently. When you eat an avocado you eat the fruit and discard the seed. When you drink roasted coffee you discard (via de-pulping then fermentation) the fruit almost immediately after it is picked (this of course only refers to de-pulped methods). What am I trying to say? The real question is at what point of development do we want the coffee picked? A solid yellow banana should be bal...
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Young Tree Coffee: Dominican Coffee for Sale from Finca La Paz
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Thursday, April 22, 2010. Dominican Coffee for Sale from Finca La Paz. Yes It is true. My coffee is for sale. For years now people have asked where they can buy my coffee and I had to tell them to wait. Wait until I had a product. Currently I've been selling my time as a consultant and that is going well, but now after years of effort I actually have coffee for sale from my farm. I have a great partnership with 1000 Faces Coffee. 1000 Faces should break even after all is said and done. They had to de...
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Young Tree Coffee: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Coffeeland Honduras Coffee Documentary. I would never do this if I didn't feel strongly. At the very least I'm posting this in a place that gets very little traffic and largely abandon by me, the author. After hearing about this buzz. 1) A poor community will never say no. Never ever. I have years of non-profit experience and not only in the DR. Walk up to any poor community say, do you want this? They will say, Yes. 2) Agronomos son plaga. Probably not. Traditionally trai...