![]() ![]() These trees are grown at lower altitudes (yes, Mountain Grown means something) and produce less pleasant tastes. Robusta coffee are cheaper, are of lesser quality and (perhaps surprisingly) have higher levels of caffeine. While the Robusta market is bigger world wide, the Arabica (or specialty coffee market) keeps growing as a percentage of the overall coffee market. There are basically two distinct types of drinkable coffee that come from two distinct types of coffee trees: Robusta & Arabica. All coffee is grown between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Parts of Africa, Asia, Indonesia and the Americas have proper growing climates for coffee: high altitudes, cool to warm tropical climates, rich soil and few pests. This is why the same basic plant now grows in about 70 countries. We named him and our second café Fido after this heroic canine that history has too often overlooked.Ĭoffee plants were eventually smuggled to other countries around the world. We soon realized that the true hero of this story was Kaldi’s dog (every goat herder has a dog, right?). Since Bongo World was started by a reporter, we dug further into the story. This is why Kaldi and goats are names frequently used in the coffee business. ![]() After tasting their first experience with caffeine, the goats were so excited, Kaldi reported that they started to dance. There, Kaldi and the Goats discovered strange looking cherries. Legend has it that a goat herder led his flock to an uncharted part of a forest. Thus, it's history tells the story of development around the world.Ĭoffee was discovered around the Sixth Century in Ethiopia. Coffee is the second most valuable traded commodity. ![]() This helps farmers to continue to own their own land, to support their families and to protect the environment.īuying Bongo coffees supports farmers, the environment and small business.Ĭoffee is a rather simple commodity with a colorful history and a surprisingly large impact on the world’s economy and an important (sometimes necessary!) part of many people’s days.Īt various times, coffee has been considered a gift from the gods, a magical cure all, the source of all humanity’s problems and a commodity that perpetuates economic inequalities. Further, many of the large coffee-processing plants discharge waste and chemical fertilizers into water supplies which of course do horrific environmental damage.īecause of all this, we only buy organically-grown coffee at prices above standard Fair Trade minimums directly from small scale farmer-owned cooperatives. Yet, despite these huge numbers, coffee-growing communities are among the poorest in the world. More than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day, making it the most consumed beverage in the world. The more you know about what we do, the better we look.Ĭoffee is a $100 billion world-wide industry that employees 25 million people just in the growing process. Telling the story of our farmer partners explains how buying organic, Fair Trade and direct-source coffees has positive economic and environmental impacts around the world. We only buy organically grown coffee directly from small-scale farmer groups at prices above the so-called Fair Trade price because we learned a long time ago how our buying choices have real world-wide social and economic consequences. For many, coffee is simply an everyday pleasure or even necessity.įor those who grow coffee for their sole income, necessity takes on a whole different meaning. ![]()
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