Coffee drinkers: do you drink organic or "shade-grown" coffee?
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Shade grown coffee is the traditional way of growing coffee and has a much better taste profile, not to mention that it saves trees. You can, of course, get shade grown, fair trade and organic all in one. Check out Larry's Beans..it is by far the best coffee I have ever had:
http://www.larrysbeans.com/items.php?sub...
Kim at: http://www.peaceful-organic-planet.com...
I'm really sick of hearing about "Environmentally Friendly" products. I'm sick of political correctness driving agendas - including the coffee I drink. I don't know what "Organic" or "shade-grown" coffee is and I don't care to know what it is. I love coffee, and I simply want it to be rich and taste good. I drink Community Coffee from New Orleans - the best coffee there is. Star Bucks coffee sucks; it's expensive, bitter, and you can get a much better cup of coffee from Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds.
Shade grown. its better because there is no need to destroy large trees.
I think the "Environment" category is one of the worse places to go to avoid such issues as "Environmentally Friendly" products... just my own speculation, but there's bound to be other areas more of interest to one of such a mind.
Aside from that, this is interesting. It's something I'm not that familiar with (in my office I drink the cheap stuff that's there plus on most mornings, one lady brews a variety of the "good stuff" and always leaves me a cup since I'm always the first one after her in the morning). I'm going to have to look into this more, though, but I don't really buy coffee at home as I brew maybe 2-3 pots a month and people always seem to give me bags...
Oh, yeah, I drink organic, and fair-trade almost always, but run across shade-grown very rarely. I always get it when I can, though. Why not do something that's so easy and can be so beneficial?
Hype or not hype, PC or not PC... I would prefer to drink or buy anything that keeps our environment in tact. This is the first time that I have heard of this but now that you have made me aware.I will definitely buy it.
Don't be sick of PC.that is the lazy approach to life. We all have a responsibility as human beings to be as friendly on our environment as possible. Only a parasite or virus takes and does not return..hmmm
I always find good fair trade coffee at health food stores.
PERMACULTURE ANSWER
the shade grown coffee i drink is organic ,
And growing this coffee is recomended as an Environmental positive type of agriculture called agro forestal because it encourages farmers to plant trees.And many other products can be included such as papaya,.fruit trees like gaunabana ,mango .and vines such as vanilla ,or yams,ending up with a wide range of products with out deminishing the numbers of coffee plants ,which works out to one every 2 to 5 meters depending the variety of coffee plant
most good ,quality coffee these days is becoming organic ,the market demands it
but many people lie ,they do not use chemicals ,but this is not what organic means
to be organic you need tons of compost .instead of a few kilos of chemicals ,and so it is much more expensive and more labor intensive ,using tracters and trailor or trucks instead of pickups.
Brazillian coffee is grown on the plains and is partly fermented inside the skin it is toasted to the seccond crack and so much blacker,,more acidic and bitter .
the shade grown coffee of guerrrero is dried on the ground .peeled, fermeted 2 or 3 days and toasted to the first crack this coffee is brown mild and not so acidic .this is my favorit ,this is very similar to Kona coffee from Hawaiie which is fermented exactly 48 hours after its peeled and is toasted to a fraction before the first crack.
all coffee is basically the same all over the world ,and there is no bad coffee ,
the taste, quality ,acidity ,color everything depends on how it is treated after
The time of fermentation ,or half fermentation like the brazillian coffee,the drying ,the toasting and the blending
so it is easy to cheat to call coffee organic when it is not
the best coffee is always SHADE GROWN ORGANIC ,
the berries mature more slowley
and have more taste
Starbucks are criminals who cheated thousands of Ethiopean farmers out of their Patents ,I would not drink their coffee just on the basis of that ,and that is open land coffee any way .that uses chemicals ,what ever they may say
Organics with shade grown is natural because the trees produce the compost with the leaves and it is already there
NOTE
when buying coffee beans buy them untoasted look for slighty greenish evenly sized beans ,if they have black points on them dont buy it
and tell the guys to roast it to just before the first crack
I drink only fair trade coffee.
Fair Trade Organic by choice. Though reading Byderule's answer it should be shade-grown coffee, as in his experience Organic coffee could be another 'cash crop' which depletes the land. Thank you for this question, its good to learn new things.
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