As soon as the season’s last ripe Kona coffee cherry is picked off the tree then it’s time to start pruning. With several thousand trees, pruning is a process that takes awhile. This year’s pruning took even longer because the process was interrupted by flowers.I had put in two days of pruning when all the trees started to bloom. It was a heavy bloom and all those flowers means plenty of bees. The entire place was buzzing with bees. The bees generally don’t bother people but pruning tree after tree covered in bees might be asking for it. Even if they’re harmless, the bees presented a good excuse to put off pruning for a few days until the bloom was finished. There is always plenty of other work to do anyways.
Not only is pruning a lot of hard work, it also takes a fair amount of training. Pruning incorrectly can hurt the trees and decreases production while proper pruning keeps the trees healthy and maximizes production. The problem is every coffee farmer in Kona has a different opinion on the “proper” way to prune Kona coffee trees. There are two main camps: traditional Kona style and Beaumont-Fukunaga.
Read: Pruning Kona Coffee Tree
[tags]Kona, Beaumont-Fukunaga, pruning, coffee farm[/tags]
Daily duties around the house can be enhanced by using coffee grounds!
1. A few grounds down the drain will gently scrape the sides of the pipe on the way down. (DON’T use them if the drain is already slow or stopped.)
2. Use them as a mild abrasive to clean grills, ovens, pots and pans and so on.
3. Got gunk? I mean like sticky, icky ash trays, or greasy pans? Scrub them with coffee grounds, dry or wet.
4. Spread a batch of coffee grounds to dry on a cookie sheet, then put them in a panty hose leg. Tie the top and put in the closet to absorb odors.
Read: Clean with them, deodorize with them, burn them… just don’t throw them out.
[tags]coffee grounds, hacks, tips, environment[/tags]
Some local Starbucks employees are making their mark on a little league park damaged by Hurricane Rita. The Starbucks workers spent their Saturday repairing damage at Beaumont`s Spindletop Little League Baseball Park. It needs everything from new paint and bleachers to gravel and an irrigation system.
Read: Starbucks Employees Help Little Leaguers Get Their Park Back
[tags]Starbucks, Hurricane Rita, Little League Baseball[/tags]
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