Unlike T-shirts, sneakers, cell phones, children?s toys, software, appliances, virtually everything made of plastic, and food, people?really?seem to care about who makes their coffee. Instead of buying guilt-free?free trade coffee, [spikec] over on Instructables decided to actually do something to uproot the evils of consumerism. He?s making his own coffee, at home, with a real coffee plant.
[spikec] bought a coffee plant a few years ago off eBay. Coffee plants are actually trees, and with careful pruning they can be maintained to a reasonable size. But what about the weather? Well, for [spikec], who lives in the 7a USDA hardiness zone ? a strip that runs from southern New Jersey to the Texas panhandle ? he just brings the plant inside when it?s cold.
Once the coffee fruit turns ripe, [spikec] picks the beans, husks the fruit, and puts the beans in a dehydrator. From there, it?s a trip through a small coffee roaster and into a french press.
[spikec] only harvested about a half pound of beans. That?s still very impressive for growing a bonsai coffee tree a thousand miles outside its native range.
Source: http://hackaday.com/2013/09/02/grow-your-own-coffee-beans/
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