Sentence examples for grown coffee from inspiring English sources

But locally grown coffee is certainly going a step further.

For every pound of conventionally grown coffee, the premium is 20 cents; for organically grown coffee, it is 50 cents, with 20 cents going to community development and the remaining 30 cents to farmers.

He strolled by a backyard with rows of hydroponically grown coffee plants, and another where a city farmer has planted every space with greens, apple trees and grapes.

My thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of a mug of industrial-strength, locally grown coffee and a big plate of juicy pineapple and papaya.

Shade grown coffee has declined precipitously in the past twenty years6,7, largely due to greater robusta production, particularly in Asia8,9,10,11.

While "shade grown" coffee makes for fancy labelling, Rainforest Alliance's work both preserves the watersheds that provide drinking water while preventing erosion.

In 2001, during the period that Allen Blackman calls "the trough of the coffee crisis," he stood in a town in Oaxaca, looking up at the forested hillsides where shade-grown coffee grew.

There is also evidence that shade-grown coffee plants produce higher-quality coffee.

Encouraging farmers to turn to shade-grown coffee (which has less of an impact on biodiversity and can be sold for higher prices than regular coffee) can increase farmer's profits.

Much of the coffee grown in Yunnan is sun grown, which requires more fertilisers as well as water than shade-grown coffee.

But shade trees can take years to grow, and while some coffee retailers, including Starbucks, have started promoting shade-grown coffee, it's still the exception rather than the rule.