Grow Your Own Coffee At Home
Following up the Coffee to Biodiesel story, it seems to me if you could grow your own coffee, as described at home coffee roasting supplier Sweet Maria’s, that would be great. Yeah.
Supposedly, a percentage of already processed (but not roasted) beans can become viable sprouts. After a couple of years a coffee tree can become productive in the right climate (no winter frost). A fully grown coffee tree will produce beans for 50 to 60 years, and sometimes for 100 years. [Paraphrased from Wikipedia’s Coffea entry]
Directions for processing them into roasted coffee beans ready for the grinder are linked here.
Floridian Larry Manfredi grew the Coffea Arabica plant and picked the beans pictured, but lost more to hurricane damage. Perhaps you’ll have better luck with your harvest.
