Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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ATTRA

MAY 7, 2024

By Audrey Kolde, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Tea, a beverage enjoyed worldwide, is a subject of growing interest among specialty crop farmers in the Gulf South. The journey of tea from seed to cup involves harvesting, withering, rolling, oxidizing, and drying. Harvesting and Processing Your Tea Congratulations on growing your own tea!

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But it wasn’t until he became the beverage director at Farm and Fisherman Tavern in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that he fully combined his passions for ethnobotany and mixology. Later, he tended bar at a restaurant in Santiago where he used fresh ingredients to create seasonal craft cocktails.

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