Ultimate Gift For the Coffee Lover In Your Life

I ask you, if you can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, why wouldn’t you buy him a coffee plant so he could drink coffee for a lifetime?

image: Gurney’s  Seed & Nursery

I think this is cool, being the green-eco-freak-sustainable-living-homesteader-coffee-addict-Donna-Reed-wanna-be that I am I am trying to figure out if I could grow enough of these in a greenhouse to keep Marc and I in coffee all year…

Now, apparently there is a sweet pulp that surrounds the coffee bean and I am wondering if you can do something off the wall like make a pie or jam with the fruit and then roast the beans for coffee? Wouldn’t that be absolutely the coolest thing?

“Yes,  have a slice of this wonderful arabica pie I made this morning, oh and let me fill your cup with this amazing coffee that I made from the seeds of the arabica as I was making the pie. Martha Stewart? No I don’ believe I know of her….”