Projects
The Work
The questions start on a working farm. Research tests them, writing follows them, and the work in Specialty Coffee Leaf puts one of them into practice.
How the work connects
The working farm
Copper Hill Farms
Research
Tests the questions
Writing
Follows the questions
Markets
Puts an answer into practice
Copper Hill Farms
The working farm in western Puerto Rico where the questions arise.
Copper Hill Farms on LinkedInCopper Hill Research Station
Field and laboratory work on botanical processing, coffee-leaf composition, and how leaf harvest affects the crop.
Explore the researchField Notes
My public notebook, published most Thursdays. The essays follow the people, animals, plants, machines, and money that shape the daily work of a farm.
Read Field NotesSpecialty Coffee Leaf Association
I’m helping establish the association to develop shared methods for describing coffee leaf and evaluating its quality.
About the associationWize
The first product from The Whole Tree Company, PBC, cold-crafted from the leaves of the coffee tree.
Read the Wize founder’s noteCopper Mill Press
An independent press developing The Second Harvest and The Accidental Farmer’s Almanac.
About the Almanac · About The Second Harvestcoffee.works
Advises on agricultural economics and market design.
About the practice