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The K7 Coffee Cultivar

Fully washed and dried SL28, SL34 and K7 Arabica coffee beans

This attractive shrub is gaining in popularity as both a commercial and home orchard crop. It bears a prolific crop of red berries from 2 - 3 years of age that is ample to make a delicious and easily-processed home made coffee. . . . → Read More: The K7 Coffee Cultivar

Cultivating Arabica Coffee

Landscape of Sumatran coffee growing region

Climate and growth

Ernesto Illy wrote in the June 2002 issue of Scientific American, Arabica is “a medium to low wielding, rather delicate tree from five to six meters tall that requires a temperate climate and considerable growing care. Commercially grown coffee bushes are pruned to a . . . → Read More: Cultivating Arabica Coffee

The History and Growing of Arabica Coffee

The world's major coffee growing regions exists within the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer

History of Arabica Coffee

Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, hence its name. Coffea arabica was first described by Antoine de Jussieu, as Jasminum arabicum after he . . . → Read More: The History and Growing of Arabica Coffee

How Coffee was traditionally harvested

The performance of early harvesters was impressive, with one machine achieving the output of up to 150 coffee pickers

The primary aim of any crop production system is to recover the maximum proportion of the crop at harvest in a state which will maximise final returns for the producer. This means production and . . . → Read More: How Coffee was traditionally harvested