Sara Lee gets out, Rogers gets into Keurig, mammals on Costa Rican coffee farms.
Coffee news and miscellany
An update on coffee growing at home: fruit development, transplanting, new seedlings, indoor lighting set-up.
Kenya has introduced a new high-yield, disease-resistant coffee varietal. Is it environmentally sustainable?
Some tidbits from the big four: J.M. Smucker Completes Acquisition of Rowland Coffee. Smucker will now own Café Bustelo and Café Pilon as well as Folgers. Yippee. Sara Lee in [...]
When discussing the problems associated with commodity coffee, and why you need to pay a little more to make sure people and the environment are protected, I’ve actually had people [...]
Media outlets have picked up on a story about a new species of coffee, Coffea brassii, from Australia. In fact, this isn’t a new species, but a plant that has [...]
How to grow coffee indoors, at 189 meters.
Recent noteworthy news pertaining to sustainable coffee: Someone worked out how a coffee CSA can work: pick some farmers, buy some shares, enjoy coffee you invested in. The last word [...]
The featured insect of the week at the North Carolina State University Insect Museum blog is the coffee berry borer.
We have just returned from a 10-day trip to Nicaragua, where we did insect and bird surveys, and bird banding, at two great coffee farms, Finca El Jaguar in Jinotega, [...]
News items from Kraft and Smuckers.
I buy over 60 pounds of high-quality, sustainable coffee a year for under $0.90 a cup. Here are my stats, and a calculator for you to use to determine how much your cup of coffee costs.
A little compilation of the discount codes, sales, and other coffee deals currently running… Cafe Campesino: Free shipping until Dec 23, plus codes for two year-round discounts. Crop to Cup: [...]
In the past, I have provided some suggestions for holiday gifts — great coffee- or bird-related charities as well as more conventional gifts for sustainable-coffee lovers. Here are my 2010 [...]
News from Starbucks, featuring the announcement of a company-operated farm in China.
