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Grower and Farmers Discussion

Aloha,

At the request of our host, Mr. Badgett, I am offering this discussion area for growers and farmers.

This is not to imply that I have much to teach but actually much more to learn. I began learning to grow things when I was a child. During springs, summers and the fall I would work after school and during vacations on my grandparents farm in Michigan. As I grew-up and went away to college, lived in the city or more rural areas I found that I always felt compelled to grow things and had even just a "planter garden" if there was no yard.

Later in life I began to think of where we wanted to end up and what we truly enjoyed. The answer for me was when I was working on the farm and growing things was when i was the happiest and most fulfilled.

Anyway, enough of my let's speak of growing coffee.

Mahalo,

Konapage

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Jorge Cutié

Permalink Reply by Jorge Cutié Dec. 4, 2007
 

Greetings fellow growers and farmers! I am a grower, processor, roaster and exporter from Turrialba, Costa Rica, who else is on this forum???

Jorge
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Konapage

Permalink Reply by Konapage Dec. 4, 2007
 

Just me right now. Aloha. How is the coffee season in Costa Rica?
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Icerat

Permalink Reply by Icerat Dec. 4, 2007
 

I am the second member of About Coffee and looking forward to create value from my membership. I would be interested in know about your operation such as history, where do you export to, how much coffee to you export at a time. Do you work with importers?
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Jorge Cutié

Permalink Reply by Jorge Cutié Dec. 4, 2007
 

I am pretty new here myself.

We are as I mentioned growers, we produce Utz Kapeh Certified coffee and process that separately from the rest of the coffee at our mill. At the mill we process about 1.4 million pounds per harvest. We export our top qualities ourselves right out of our mill. We also do a little roasting and sell locally and to our visitors as wel have a coffee tour established...check it out at www.goldenbean.net

Jorge
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Icerat

Permalink Reply by Icerat Dec. 4, 2007
 

How would you characterize Utz Kapeh? For instance how does this bean differ from those lableled Columbian?
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Jorge Cutié

Permalink Reply by Jorge Cutié Dec. 4, 2007
 

Utz Kapeh is a sustainability seal, Certified Responsable Coffee, it answes 2 questions, how was the coffee produced? where does the coffee come from?

Our coffee is High Grown Atlantic, it has a full body, great aroma and mild acidity
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Icerat

Permalink Reply by Icerat Dec. 4, 2007
 

I assume that your coffee is purchase by an importer in the US. How many kilos or pounds to you sell at a time?
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Jorge Cutié

Permalink Reply by Jorge Cutié Dec. 5, 2007
 

We export container loads of green coffee 17,250 kilos to the US and roasted we can export any amount required....
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Jorge Cutié

Permalink Reply by Jorge Cutié Dec. 4, 2007
 

Our harvest is 85% over in the Turrialba area, we are an early ripening area, the country itself is under 50% over, or maybe a bit under....
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