A Shift in the Season—and in the Ground Below
Droughts in Vietnam and Brazil, rising coffee prices, and shifting café habits are reshaping how Indian coffee growers farm in 2024.
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Coffee Planter's Diary
A coffee planter's journal from Malnad, the coffee corridor of India, where I'm an absentee coffee planter, visiting when I can …
Sound and Silence in Coffee Country
Vagaries of weather might diminish the coffee, but they can't take away the green hills and trees of Malnad and the quiet of the country.
The Burden of Being the Owner
"Pay the full amount," Anwar says, "start the deductions from Friday." Dharmendra and Harish laugh. "How shall we explain that to the malik?"
It's That Time When the Coffee Plants Think They're Dying
The plants will lift up, and they will bloom white all at once across the plantation, making these tropical tracts look like they're snowed upon.
Lost in the Woods
"But why must you be close to nature? The wild must live undisturbed in the wild, and the human must stay put in the city."
Coffee Planting: Costa Rican Vs Guatemalan Vs Colombian
Kenyan coffee planters, who took to multi-stem farming and returned to the single system, hold empirical proof that multi-stem doesn't work.
Dealing With Disaster
The crew is doing damage control now, drawing back the Yara from the base of the pepper and pushing it toward the mulch around the cardamom.
With Modi in My Dreams, Getting Real About Coffee
Birds, peafowl, hare, fox, boar. Trees, plants, and vines. Every rich shade of green. Who in his senses will argue you have caused damage here?
Because Coffee and Pepper and Cardamom Must Live
Even as they demand the best coffee, buyers want to be assured that God’s creatures are teeming on your property. We have good news for them.
You Sow What You Reap. Really?
The gods decide if a bean will make it to somebody’s gut or if it will merely rot in the soil that sprouted it.