Posted in Green, Loco for Locavores, Tips, coffee science, roasting, tagged Green, Coffee, eco-friendly, roasting, shipping, carbon footprint, food miles, carbon emissions, energy consumption on June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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I can’t wait to have one of these stores near me
I’ve been so busy roasting, cupping and adding new coffees that I haven’t had time to pontificate on deep and meaningful things in the space lately. So here’s a little something to chew on…
I’ve been thinking about carbon footprints lately. We’ve spent a [...]
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Posted in Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Trade Shows, rants, real food, road coffee, roasting, small business, travels, tagged cream sauce, local food, locavore, old city coffee, pasta, philadelphia, reading terminal market, real food, recipe on March 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And so it was in the City of Brotherly Love for me this week. I expected Philadelphia to be a coffee Mecca, given the large Italian influence on the place. Well, maybe not Mecca, exactly, that would be Seattle. But I expected a decent espresso. Turned out to be [...]
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Posted in Local Coffee of the Week, Organic, roasting, specials, tagged adventure, coffee of the week, fresh coffee, home delivery, local coffee, local delivery on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Thursdays are always roast days, when we prepare to supply subscribing customers and local markets. We thought it would be nice to offer our local customers the ability to take advantage of some economies of scale - it’s not much more work to throw some extra pounds in a Thursday batch, so we are offering [...]
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Our shipment of Kona arrived from the Big Island yesterday! We are offering 100% Smithfarms Kona, from the estate of Bob and Cea Smith. Their farm overlooks the Captain Cook bay from an elevation of 1500 feet. Bob uses all natural and sustainable methods (no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides) to produce their [...]
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Posted in roasting, tagged Coffee, coffee roaster, eco-friendly, ecofriendly, environmentally responsible, Green, green coffee roasting, low emission, Revelation Roaster, roaster, roasting technology, sustainable roasting, US Roaster Corp on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Do you think about the planet when you buy things? Probably. It’s almost impossible these days to be unaware, or not care, about issues related to global warming. It seems natural to think about the planet when you buy a car, or a big kitchen appliance. Some of us even think of the planet when [...]
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