Showing posts with label small farmer and roasting small quantities. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Blue Mountain Coffee...from field to market

The world's best coffee, grown in Jamaica...Blue Mountain Coffee. A small farmer shared his growing technique, and later we discovered how the berry is dried, cleaned, roasted and ground for consumers. Typically a small farmer will grow (prune, fertilize with chicken manure and Nitrogen, treat for the berry borer, pay women to pick the berry in 50# boxes) and sell to wholesalers as the berry.