Florida to Get First Coffee Plantation
Mountain-grown it will never be.
Here's a story (lots of registration rigamarole, but it's free) about a man who is seriously trying to start a coffee plantation in Florida. The experts are skeptical, and so am I. South Florida may seem tropical, but it's not technically in the tropics. Coffee likes, yea, demands the tropics, doesn't it? I thought it also needed altitude, and I don't mean altitude=sea level.
The man's name is J.C. Nadeau, and he's importing specially bred coffee plants from Colombia. His plantation will be 10 acres, near Davie, Florida, planted with 5,000 coffee trees for starters. If he makes it work it will be the first commercial coffee plantation in Florida.
The experts are saying that Florida's high summer humidity could harm coffee plants, and one freeze could destroy them. Nadeau, though, says he's grown many successful test plants in back yards throughout the region.
Nadeau began roasting coffee a few years ago. His formerly mobile coffee roastery is now semi-permanently installed at New River Groves in Davie. The coffee, which Nadeau developed to be easy on the stomach, supposedly draws rave reviews from people who try it.
But a coffee plantation in Florida? As they say in the movies, it's an idea so crazy it just might work!
coffee Florida Miami food agriculture weather Colombia farming beverages coffee roasting plantation
Here's a story (lots of registration rigamarole, but it's free) about a man who is seriously trying to start a coffee plantation in Florida. The experts are skeptical, and so am I. South Florida may seem tropical, but it's not technically in the tropics. Coffee likes, yea, demands the tropics, doesn't it? I thought it also needed altitude, and I don't mean altitude=sea level.
The man's name is J.C. Nadeau, and he's importing specially bred coffee plants from Colombia. His plantation will be 10 acres, near Davie, Florida, planted with 5,000 coffee trees for starters. If he makes it work it will be the first commercial coffee plantation in Florida.
The experts are saying that Florida's high summer humidity could harm coffee plants, and one freeze could destroy them. Nadeau, though, says he's grown many successful test plants in back yards throughout the region.
Nadeau began roasting coffee a few years ago. His formerly mobile coffee roastery is now semi-permanently installed at New River Groves in Davie. The coffee, which Nadeau developed to be easy on the stomach, supposedly draws rave reviews from people who try it.
But a coffee plantation in Florida? As they say in the movies, it's an idea so crazy it just might work!
coffee Florida Miami food agriculture weather Colombia farming beverages coffee roasting plantation
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