Sustainable gourmet coffee and fair trade coffee
how to really help someone by buying a cup of coffee
Let me start by acknowledging I am the middle man you guys mention - I own Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee and give all my profits to orphans. I own an IT company too so no one draws a salary so all the profits go to kids. I am a US citizen but own a coffee farm in Costa Rica. The family I bought the farm from still farm it for free - I buy my coffee from the Co-Op my farm belongs to in Costa Rica
Coffee Machines: Utilizing Todays Technology For Your Favorite Morning Drink
Why are coffee machines in high demand? Considering that current statistics suggest that “the US imported more than 5 million bags of coffee just in the fourth quarter of 2006,? according to the National Coffee Association, it is no wonder that the manufacture of coffee machines has skyrocketed as well.
Coffee machines have not only grown in popularity, but have become much more sophisticated that the early models of old.
Today, you can program a coffee machine for early morning breakfast; utilize gourmet coffee machines to make a tasty cup of espresso or cappuccino; or use a simpler coffee machine wherein you can have a cup of java at any time of the day.
All About Harvesting Coffee
Each year coffee is normally harvested during the dry season only, when the coffee cherries are very bright red, glossy and firm enough to be harvested. Ripe cherries could be either picked by hand, stripped from the tree with both unripe and overripe coffee beans or even all the beans could be collected using a harvesting machine. These processes are known as careful picking, stripping and mechanical harvesting, respectively.
