This month is Plastic Free July! At Coffee Plant we are well aware that plastic waste is highly damaging to the environment. Plastic micro and nano particles could turn out to be literally slow poisons. As a customer you would probably like to know what we are doing about this. The problem is that by now we are all…
One indirect effect of the shortages after the 2021 frost in Brasil is random hiccups in the supply of some of our most popular origins of coffee beans. Even Kenya the queen of mild roast coffees vanished recently for a couple of months on the wholesale market. Other worries are on Cuban (promised for March but don’t hold your…
It’s been a turbulent time at Coffee Plant with staff illness and family issues getting in the way of customer service over the vital Christmas period. If you had to wait in a slow moving queue we apologise. The unfortunate fact is that anyone living in London are on relatively low wages sometimes has to make difficult decisions which…
Fortunately, this is something we rarely hear but we suspect that independent shops following the current trend for super light roast hear it more often. As well as gourmet suppliers with light acidic coffees, there are other reasons a cup of coffee can be a disappointment. Chains offer high roast coffee made weakly, or low-grade Robusta, to boost profits…
Frost is the enemy of coffee plants. With the Brazil frost season now over uneventfully, coffee roasters (and drinkers) are breathing a sigh of relief, hoping for a drop in the sky-high wholesale prices we have suffered since the frost in Brazil last summer. So far that has not happened and in the next few weeks Coffee may even…
A new study involving real-world experiments at 30 coffee farms has found that coffee fruit health and production is dramatically improved with the increased presence of both birds and bees. The research underscores the need to support agroforestry systems in coffee farming — as opposed to deforested monocrop systems — in order to support biodiversity, plant health, and potentially…
McDonald’s received £872 million in UK Covid-19 subsidies and tax breaks in 2020 War in Want is a charity not afraid to attack the structures that give rise to the unfair world we live in. It’s not only the £872m. A new WoW video explains how in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, McDonald’s was using a circular paper transaction…
We have experienced strong growth across most of our certification schemes across Forestry and Organic; moved into our new headquarters in central Bristol and seen our team grow by over 40 staff; helped the organic market increase in size to £3bn; expand our reach to now certify FSC and PEFC schemes in over 60 countries, representing certified forestry of…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Ian Henshall and all of the team from Coffee Plant, Our Factory will be closed from Friday 24th Until Tuesday 28th December. Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th December we will be open from 8am until 2pm for emergency orders. Friday 31st December we will be closed Monday 3rd January we will…
Coffee wholesale prices have rocketed in the last few months and this will affect prices in the shops before much longer. Why have prices more than doubled? There are two reasons: the superficial and the fundamental. As usual the media are focusing on the superficial cause which was a minor frost in Brasil last summer (winter in Brasil!). In…
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