Coffee Varieties: Sarchimor

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Coffee Varieties: Sarchimor

By Tim Thompson on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 | No Comments

A coffee variety more resistant to coffee leaf rust than most is sarchimor. This is a hybrid between the Costa Rican Villa Sarchi coffee and a Timor variety. Timor coffee itself is a hybrid between Arabica and robusta which is what gives the coffee its leaf rust resistance. Besides being grown today in Costa Rica, […]

Coffee Varieties: Gesha

By Tim Thompson on Thursday, September 10th, 2015 | No Comments

We have written quite a bit about Panama mountain grown organic coffee. This is the first time we have mentioned Gesha coffee, a gourmet variety grown in the highlands of Chiriquí Province in the west of the country. Panama is the last Central American country before you get to Colombia (South America). Once part of […]

Leaf Rust Resistant Honduran Coffee

By Tim Thompson on Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 | No Comments

Research into resistant coffee strains and significant replanting has led to increased Honduran coffee output and exports. Agrimoney.com writes about how the third ranking exporter of Arabica coffee is well on its way to overcoming coffee leaf rust and bringing exports back up to traditional levels. Honduran coffee production, and exports, will hit a record […]

The Biology of Shade Grown Organic Coffee

By Tim Thompson on Thursday, April 16th, 2015 | No Comments

Coffee has lots of great health benefits and healthy organic coffee is the best as going organic helps you avoid more than a hundred impurities that can be found in cup of regular coffee. We know that certified organic coffee is better for the environment as organic coffee farming follows sustainable practices. These practices for […]

Organic Coffee Threatened

By Tim Thompson on Thursday, September 11th, 2014 | No Comments

We have written previously about the dilemma that organic coffee growers face when coffee leaf rust infects their crops. Now Bloomberg has taken notice. In an article entitled Organic Coffee Threatened by Global Warming-Stoked Fungus the news organization discusses how growers are faced with spraying and losing their organic status or not spraying and losing […]

Robusta Coffee Beans

By Tim Thompson on Monday, September 1st, 2014 | No Comments

There are two basic types of coffee beans, Arabica and Robusta. We mostly write about healthy organic coffee made from Arabica coffee beans. But there is another whole world of coffee for different uses in the world of Robusta coffee beans. So, how do robusta coffee beans differ from Arabica and what are Robusta coffee […]

Environmental Impact of Sun Cultivated Coffee

By Tim Thompson on Friday, July 18th, 2014 | No Comments

Traditional coffee farms grow coffee in the shade. The plants are interspersed under a forest canopy, typically in a cloudy mountain habitat. There is no need for synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides or fungicides in such a sustainable habitat. The result is organic shade grown coffee whether it is certified or not. But, the increased demand […]

Wait Five Years for a Cup of Coffee

By Tim Thompson on Monday, June 2nd, 2014 | No Comments

For folks who are used to stopping by Starbucks for a cup of coffee on the way to work it may be a little difficult to imagine that they might have to wait five years for a cup of coffee! This thought is occasioned by an article we read in the online Arizona Daily Star. […]

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