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How do you know when your coffee beans are ready to harvest? Harvesting coffee isn’t that hard on a small scale but it is actually a problem some commercial farmers are having to over come. Harvesting the best beans isn’t a problem for us that are growing our own coffee. You’ve been patiently waiting to pick your fresh fruit. Years …
The average american has 3 cups of coffee a day according to E-importz. How many coffee plants will you need to have to produce 3 cups of coffee a day? To figure this out we will have to know how much coffee per plant we will be able to get. This is a good question that many home growers may …
Selecting the right specialty coffee beans is a very important step in the process of brewing a better cup of coffee. Even if you’ve perfected your roast and your water temperature is on point and you have your brew time down to a science. None of this will matter if you have beans that have not been grown with passion …
Soil is the primary system from which the plant lives and absorbs water and critical nutrients from. Let’s understand the dirt so we can learn how to provide the best soil for coffee. Soil is actually alive, an ecosystem in itself. Think of soil as a container holding the essential nutrients of life. If you begin taking out more than …
Be prepared to be patient if you plan on starting your coffee plant from seed! The Coffee Seedlings pictured below are probably about 10 months to a year old. Growing coffee from a little seed can be a very rewarding process. although, It usually takes about 3-4 years of steady work to harvest your first size able batch of coffee …
We are focused on manual coffee brewing methods here, Everybody loves their coffee different and each method will give you a different tasting cup. Do you enjoy berry sweetness or are you a more earthy a nutty type of person? Even though everybody likes coffee in their own unique way. There are a few manual coffee brewing methods that I …
Learning to be a home coffee roaster is so much fun! Finding out how to change your roast each time to give you a different flavor is so exciting and kind of addicting! You probably either have fresh green beans from a local shop that you are ready to roast or you have grown your own. Or, maybe you are …
Oh coffee, I love you with your magical energy giving abilities! How nice is the thought of growing coffee at your house? All of the caffeine junkies you know will be hitting you up! A lot goes in to making a good bean though, I hope you’re ready for the challenge. Not many of us have the natural habitat for …
