Coffee expedition - live from Ethiopia

Tweets, blogs and mentions from the field in Ethiopia. The team in search of populations of wild coffee.

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  3. Kew Gardens - Beyond the Gardens - The Forgotten Home of Coffee
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    Mon, Jun 03 2013 07:06:58
  5. Coffee_Illustration_Jessica Rosemary Shepherd
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    Tue, Sep 03 2013 17:00:00
  6. Recent botanical illustration of coffee by Jessica Rosemary Shepherd from the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

  7. Coffee Plants Don't Like It Hot
    Guest blogger Atreyee Bhattacharya is a science correspondent and climate scientist, currently a research affiliate at the Department of ...
    Jyoti Madhusoodanan
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    Thu, Apr 18 2013 17:00:00
  11. Coffee leaf, coffee husk and coffee bean - taste session
      leaf - much like green tea, but with immense and raved about detox properties
      husk - difficult to describe, not really coffee not really tea, just like you have drunk husk water!
      harar coffee - rich, crisp, citrus coffee

  13. P1060402
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    Sun, Mar 31 2013 17:00:00
  14. Coffee cupping: 
    Roast, grind: Smell fragrance. 
    Weigh, pour water, break the crust with a back of a spoon in a light circular motion: Smell the aroma
    Spoon, slurp, spit: Assess the taste
    In our case we swallowed some of the coffee, far too good to spit out.

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    Sun, Mar 31 2013 17:00:00
  16. An education in coffee beans.
    Left: Limu (from the Jimma area)
      small oval bean with s-shaped scar
      taste well balanced 
    Right: Sidamo
      longer oblong bean with straight or slight curved scar
      taste more citrus notes  


  17. Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union
    Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU) is a small farmers owned cooperative union which have members from all coffee growing region in Oromia regional state. OCFCU was established in 1999 to facilitate the direct export of coffee produced by small farmers organized in cooperatives.
    Oromiacoffeeunion
  18. P1830339
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    Mon, Apr 01 2013 17:00:00
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    Tue, Apr 02 2013 17:00:00
  20. Aaron enjoying the many historical coffee specimens available in Addis
  23. EcoMyths: Why your coffee may go extinct
    About 70% of all coffee varieties consumed globally are derived from the Arabica bean. Scientists recently predicted that the Arabica pla...
    Wbez
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