Comments on: Guatemala: Coffee is life

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:21:03 +0000

@Ali- Not officially, but pretty much everywhere we were had plots of coffee trees growing here and there in the forest. There was excellent birding throughout.

By: Ali Iyoob

Ali Iyoob — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:10:03 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know about that. Did you get to visit a coffee farm?

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:24:46 +0000

@Dawn- I wish I could add a RT button. I looked into it but I’m a wordpress.com blog and the plug-in isn’t available to me. At some point I’ll probably upgrade but until then I’m stuck without one.

By: Dawn Fine

Dawn Fine — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:22:04 +0000

Thanks for this post! I think that allot of people are unaware of Why shade grown coffee is better all the way around…

I will tweet this one out to twitter..
But sure would be easier if you had Retweet button.:)
Not meant to annoy you by that comment..just letting you know..still wont prevent me from tweeting out a post I feel is worthy!
Cheers!

By: Rick Wright

Rick Wright — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:05:25 +0000

There is at least one finca in Guatemala that claims to grow tea in the shade–but it didn’t look very shady to me when I saw it.

By: Thornius

Thornius — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:34:33 +0000

My friends in the U.K. drink more coffee than we do when they are not drinking tea. They have one or two cups of tea a day per person but seem to drink a liter or more of coffee during the day followed by a few glasses of red wine at night. My son-in-law is from Scotland and he tells me they drink much more coffee in the U.K. than they do tea.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:48:54 +0000

@Jochen- Apparently tea can be grown in partial shade, but it prefers full sun. So yes, we coffee drinkers are far superior.

By: Jochen

Jochen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:33:34 +0000

Does shade-grown tea exist?
If not, we’d finally have a winning argument for coffee’s supremacy.