Do You Shop Local For Your Coffee?
Keeping with this month’s environmental theme and being socially responsible in general, this week’s poll is “Do You Shop Local For Your Coffee?”
Coffee comes with a large carbon footprint, one way to shrink that footprint is to buy locally roasted coffee. Buying local cuts one trip from that footprint.
Do You Shop Local For Your Coffee?
- Sometimes (42%, 10 Votes)
- Yes (38%, 9 Votes)
- No (20%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 24
Loading ...I’ve been fortunate enough to try coffees from all over the world, however I don’t shop locally nearly enough. It’s something that I’m going to work on this year. The Tampa area doesn’t seem like a hotbed of coffee, but every time I turn around, I hear about a new local roaster or coffee company.
What about you? Is your coffee roasted locally? Does it matter to you?
Last week’s question was “Do You Throw Your Coffee Grounds In The Trash?”
54% of people said they just throw their coffee grounds into the trash.
Jamie Ferguson said:
It’s funny that you posted this. I was thinking of doing a post about what you do with your coffee grinds. haha
I throw mine out in the trash, but it’s probably better to use them in the yard for plants.
Extreme John said:
Now in regards to this week’s poll, I voted but honestly my option wasn’t there. I throw them into my garbage disposal
46% voted that they do recycle their coffee grounds.
Julie said:
We never throw our coffee grounds in the trash. Why waste good stuff? We compost a lot – fruit and vegetable scraps AND coffee grounds – they all eventually go back into our backyard soil.
Aaron said:
The closest term for what I do with them would be mulching. I haven’t started a warm weather garden yet, so I’m just keeping the used grounds in a bucket. Once I get my vegetables started I’ll use them as a mulch around the plants. When we used to use paper filters we would put those into the compost bin with the grounds.
BaristaOnDutY said:
Well Lets See I Always Recycle My Grounds, I Have An Organic Garden That Loves The Extra Nitrogen, Aside From That My Wife Uses It To Make Soaps With, Actually I Need To Send You A Bar
. The Most Important Thing Is Depending On My Mood Or If I’m Running Low On Coffee I Will Often Brew A Second 1/2 Pot With The Same Ground, Some May Argue, But If The Grounds R Right It Is Possible.
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I get our coffee from Sprouts Farmers Market. The kind that you grind on the spot. I’m not sure where they get it from, though. I never thought to check, I just know what they sell tastes great.
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That would depend on whether or not you consider local chains truly ‘local’. Somehow I doubt it’s roasted locally though, unfortunately. I think it’s a matter of convenience and taste. It’s hard to go around trying every single local coffee shop in order to find one that’s good when you know you can just go to a place like Starbucks or Biggby’s. Perhaps we should all make a little more effort.
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if i am in a local grocery.deli.coffee bistro.market i DO make an
effort to check the coffee bean selections.
as long as they are;
fresh dated
organic
fair traded
i give the labels a 2nd look with the intent
of making a purchase.
i don’t think there is any good roasters In NJ anyway
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In San Diego, it’s especially hard to show local for coffee. It’s not like we’re growing a lot of it and our port is one of the main entry points for not only bananas, but coffee as well from Central and South America. There are a number of both ethical and environmental concerns which come with coffee and those are hard to gauge when we’re talking about national chains the size of Starbucks and Coffee Bean, which are our only two choices near to our home.