Did you know that coffee beans, much like any food you plant in your garden, have ideal planting and harvest times? While we in the Green Mountains of Vermont are reveling in autumn traditions like apple picking and hay rides, other regions of the world are harvesting the specific coffee beans that we need to roast the single origin and blends we love.
Coffee Beans with a Fall Growing Season
Here are some of the coffee regions that start their prime harvest season in October.
- Columbia has its main harvest season from October through February. Our Columbian Supremo will be at its peak during this time. Columbian coffee beans also do well from April to June.
- Guatemalan coffee beans also are best harvested from October to January. We offer the Guatemalan Antigua single origin coffee.
- Kenyan coffee beans like the ones we roast for the Kenya AA coffee have their main harvest season from October to December. There is a secondary harvest in June and July. Sadly, a poor growing season is driving up the prices of this lovely bean.
So the fall season is the ideal time to try a new coffee bean. As a Vermont coffee roaster, I need to be aware of more than the seasons here in New England. In fact, I have to pay attention to what is happening all over the world. Harvest times, growing conditions and a lot of other factors make a different to our Vermont based coffee business. And to the coffee in your cup!
The world just seems to get smaller everyday! So stop by for a cup on your way down Route 15.
Until our next cup,
Sandy Riggen
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