Great to hear! I wish the best for you, this is good news to have coffee produced on the mainland USA. Hawaii has great coffee, I am interested to see what flavors you are able to produce. Please keep us posted.

Have enjoyed reading your blog. Lots of great thoughts and information.

Thought you might like to know that coffee is indeed being grown in the US mainland. We are growing 1,000 plants of arabica coffee in special greenhouses in the Blue Ridge Mountians of Northeast Georgia, at 1680 feet altitude, under dappled mountain sunlight. First harvesting expected in November 2012.

Our site: http://www.yonahcoffee.com

Thanks,

Richard and Candelario

Good to hear from you! For seed saving, let the plants develop the seed heads, then monitor them pretty closely as they begin to dry, as you don’t want the seed heads to “shatter” or release all of their seeds. Once things are starting to get slightly dry and brittle, it’s often best to wrap paper bags over the seedheads or clip them and store them in large paper bags to finish drying. Then you have more control over collecting the seeds to save.

Been a long time since we spoke, always appreciate your taking the time and your help from our discussions a cpl of years ago.
I was was wondering how long I need to let my lettuces, kale, swiss chard, parsnips etc go before letting them dry for seed-saving. Can I pull them or should I wait til the plant itself dries out, or can I pull it up after the “flowers/pods” have fully matured….(aka full grown size of pods)

Hope all is well with you and yours in AZ.

Cheers

Andy