We spoke to the founder of Forest Bean coffee about sustainability, time honoured farming traditions, and what makes their ...

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she's raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago. When she ...

While arabica and robusta are the two most common types of coffee beans, excelsa is being considered to become a forerunner for supply.

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

Although they are called “coffee beans”, the plant is not a legume, and the fruits of the coffee tree look more like cherries when they are first picked. The seeds inside are extracted and ...

Legend has it that a goat farmer in Ethiopia discovered coffee beans in the ninth century. He noticed that after his goats ...