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Dixie Cup - To the Cup!

It took us about a week to find that our seeds had dried. I think it was a little less, but since Jason and I live about 30 minutes away, we had to wait till Mondays to get to planting. Sigh. I am not paid to just do coffee yet… Anyways, now that we were content with our water moisture by measuring the weight of the combined beans, we set out to plant. I was wary of where and how we were going to plant our new seeds. Last time we were so organized and calculated. On this specific Monday, we were arranging it on the spot. I remember I had to run to the loo (British for toilet) and as I was in thought Jason walked by outside the door proclaiming he had a “brilliant” idea. His idea: let’s indiv

Dixie Cup - From Cherries to Seeds

We got coffee cherries. Yes: fresh ones. How did we get them you ask? Well, we can leave story for a later time. But to give you some background, coffee cherries come from a coffee bush. It does take a while for a coffee plant to produce cherries, but you will find an aromatic white flower that will eventually produce cherries. Once the cherries become dark red you can pick them by hand and select what you would like to do: plant them and see the circle of life continue, or roast them and destroy life (horrible person you). Since we do not have a roaster, we will simply support other businesses that destroy coffee fertility and choose to reproduce coffee plants ourselves. We prepared our cof

Coffee Pot

Don’t use terra cotta pots for your coffee plants unless you enjoy watching living things suffer without the gratification and relief that c

Dixie Cup - Begins

Round Two. That is right, we are now on to round two of pain-staking care, constant supervision, and unmitigated excitement as we wait patiently for little sprouts to develop. Yes, we are attempting to plant coffee seeds again. We will revisit and describe our adventure the first time around, dubbed appropriately as “The Coffee Cup”, in a later blog. Suffice to say, we only managed to sprout a couple of weeds after 3 months of delicate and dedicated parenting. The initial excitement of seeing any type of sprout evaporated into disdain as we realized we were duped by weeds. We let them burn in the summer sun known to Minnesota. Nothing survived. However, we are hoping for a much greater harve

A Matter of Introduction

To begin, I must reiterate my coffee motto: “It’s all about coffee and conversation. Coffee and conversation.” This is not original to me, but to my cousin. My cousin who refused to also drink crappy coffee that our roommate prepared one day. That was before I got into coffee, although now I would agree with his assessment. Life is too short to drink crappy coffee. Now that I mention that life is too short to drink crappy coffee, let me enlighten you on what makes GOOD coffee. Okay, this is what good coffee is for me (I totally understand that tastes and interest in coffee differs from person to person. You may be into Folgers sludge and I will judge you for that). But to get to good coffee

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