Did you know you could make coffee tea from the leaves of the coffee bush! I finally got round to trying the fresh leaves from my plant as a tea a couple of weeks back and it was really delicious, with a similar taste to coffee berries if you’ve tried them (the red flesh around the seed used to make coffee).
Coffee tea is certainly easier to grow and make at home than coffee coffee …. I’m still saving seed for a brew :)
One of the first plants to harvest from in my indoors forest garden this year….familiar? It’s also one of the best indoors edimentals..
See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=436
My host Solara Goldwynn spotted Dandelion Latte on the drinks menu at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific in Victoria yesterday…so we had to try…a bit too sweet for my taste, but interesting….
Click the link to download this Norwegian report on a project in which old hop plants were collected from 18 locations around Norway (in Norwegian). Some of these are now available for members of Norwegian Seed Savers (Planteklubben for grønnsaker).
Daina Binde from Latvia doesn’t drink coffee but has a nose for a coffee flower…as she discovered that my coffee plant was in flower, unnoticed by me, in the depths of my living room forest garden….
I thought it hadn’t flowered for about 4-5 years, but it must have done as it also had two berries!!
More about Coffea arabica “Malvik” here: http://www.edimentals.com/
