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Seven New Coffees Available at Home Roast Coffee including 2 supporting Grounds For Health

We have been adding the new coffees to the Green Coffee Beans collection as fast as we can do a few various roasts and applicable cuppings. 

The First two we were the winning Bidder for on the Grounds For Health coffee Auction to support Grounds For Health mission to provide health screenings to women in coffee growing Regions.

First is our Sumatra Indonesia Lintong Peaberry Rain Forest Alliance GFH, grown within view of Lake Toba in the Lintong Region of Sumatra.

                                            

Sumatra coffee plants overlooking lake Toba          Sumatra Lintong forest and architecture                    Ripe hand picked Lintong coffee cherries

 

Second on our list is another GFH Auction coffee. Ethiopia Kaffa Forest Chiri Coop Gr 2 TNS project GFH. This delicious coffee comes from the place where we probably first discovered coffee (the name comes from Kaffa). The TNS project provides Chiri Coop Members with Best practices training for coffee cultivation, picking, and processing. The Chiri washing station operates an ECO Pulper that uses 1/10 the usual amount of water consumed in wet processing of coffee cherries.

 

Chiri Coop Coffee Producers in Kaffa Ethiopia

 

For every pack of the 2 Grounds for Health Coffees we sell on Our site we will donate $1 to Grounds For Health.

 

Just added to the site today, click on the links to see more details for each coffee:

Bolivia ASOCAFE Fair Trade Organic Amor de Dios Washing Station.

Java A/WP1 Bayu Kidul Estate Washed.

Other recent additions.

Rwanda Fully Washed, Scr 15 up, Mushonyi Washing Station, Lake Kivu 

Papua New Guinea Plantation A/X, Waghi BOB

Sulawesi Toraja Mamasa, Kalossi, Gr 1

 

More coming soon, Thank you for your support.

Sumatra Lintong Photos courtesy of Crop to Cup Importers who donated to Grounds For Health.

Ethiopia Chiri Coop Members Photo courtesy Atlas Coffee Importers who donated the coffee to Grounds For Health.

 

 

Grounds For Health Ethiopia Kaffa Forest Chiri Coop TNS project Auction Coffee now available

From the Birthplace of Coffee in western Ethiopia the Mankira forest in the Kaffa Region Grounds For Healthstill produces Ethiopian Heirloom "Native Kaffa Type" Semi-forest and wild farming coffee. This may very well be the closest we can get to the flavor of coffee first discovered by humans centuries ago. Generously donated by Atlas Coffee Importers to the Coffee Auction to support their efforts to provide health services to women in coffee growing locations. We are happy to be the high bidder on this fine coffee in support of Grounds For Health and now have it available for you. This coffee reflects our goals of Great Taste, Value, People and Earth friendly. We will additionally donate $1 for every pack of Ethiopa Kaffa Forest Chiri Coop GFH gr 2 sold on our website homeroastcoffee.com this year.

              

Ethiopia Kaffa Forest Chiri Coop Coffee      Mankira Forest Birthplace of Coffee           Chiri Coop Smallholder Members

Chiri Coop is a TNS project to organize and educate 440 Smallholder farmers around a centralized Wetmill, Drying, and storage facility "Chiri". The Farmers hand pick and sort the coffee cherries for proper ripeness before submitting to processing.

Chiri Coop uses a modern Eco Pulper to remove the skin and fruit from the cherries while consuming 1/10 the normal amount of water used in the Washed process.  

Atlas Coffee Importers cupping note: "Black currant and cocoa in the aroma. Flavors of currant, blackberries, hazelnut and cocoa. Very flavor intense with distinct blackberry acidity. The mouth feel is rich, intense and juicy. Overall it is complex and balanced with mature dark fruit notes and great body."

Photos of Mankira Forest Ethiopia and Chiri Coop Members, and Kaffa / Chiri information courtesy of Atlas Coffee Importers.

Grounds for Health Auction Bid Wins Help Women in Coffee Growing Regions

Home Roast Coffee is pleased to announce that we were able to win the bids for 3 new Coffees that were donated to Grounds For Health which is instrumental in saving lives in Coffee Producing Regions.

The Auction is one of the ways our Specialty Coffee Community helps support those who Produce the Coffee we love, and we are happy to be part of this effort. The Coffees and related items are Generously donated by Members of our Specialty Coffee Community and Auctioned to Coffee Lovers like you and me.

We will be offering the three Coffees which will be noted as our Grounds for Health Auction wins soon along with a blog post describing them in more detail.

For more information on Grounds for Health click this

We would like to Thank the Folks who made these Generous Donations:

Atlas Coffee Importers

Crop to Cup Coffee Importers

Mt Top Coffee, and Jim Cone of Coffee and Tea Ltd.

Behmor Inc.