NBC News: Coffee prices soar to 40-year highs as global growers struggle with extreme weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDHLYmMlQs #foodsupply #foodsecurity #coffee #climateemergency
Coffee prices soar to 40-year highs as global growers struggle with extreme weather

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@ai6yr

Six months in the freezer, if one had a mind to stock up a bit...

@czarbucks If I get desperate, I will start chewing the leaves on my coffee bush out front LOL (the fruit is kinda tasty, but it gives me a wicked caffeine rush)

@ai6yr

Oh gosh, that's wild. I've been trying to think of the things T will cause to spike, and coffee was one of them. Figured climate change would be the super-charger.

Tea seems to last a lot longer (at least to me, the non-connoisseur) I wouldn't be happy switching, but if needs must.

@czarbucks I even went down the list of "stuff that can be made into tea" here. There's quite a long list. Guava leaf tea is pretty good, I have a few guava trees that will be thriving in the heat as long as they get water. Mint... it's a weed. Stinging nettle is really good, but it is seasonal and needs a lot of water. Horehound is TERRIBLY bitter. Wild mustard, like spinach. Pine needles, high in Vitamin C. Elderberries, but very seasonal here, apparently recommended for your immune system. I do like stinging nettle. Also have Manuka here.

@ai6yr @czarbucks

There is caffeine in yaupon holly, but I cannot recommend the taste.

@michael_w_busch @czarbucks Fresh coffee berries are very tasty and quite a bit of caffeine. The leaves can be brewed into tea, as well. You can grow them as houseplants, if you wish. The main issue is sourcing your coffee plant. (I haven't managed to get any of my coffee berries here to sprout, I wonder if they need cross pollination)

@ai6yr @czarbucks It is possible to grow ones own tea plants in NorCal and Oregon - or even indoors here in Minnesota.

But it is a lot of work.

@ai6yr @michael_w_busch @czarbucks
Brewing coffee leaves makes tea? 🤣 I don't think so.

@godzero @michael_w_busch @czarbucks

Let's see... Wikipedia has an entry! 😉

(also mentions the Ethiopians making tea out of coffee leaves for hundreds of years, I will need to find a reference on that)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee-leaf_tea

Coffee-leaf tea - Wikipedia

@ai6yr @godzero @czarbucks

Kuti is not tea. But if you are that desperate for caffeine, go right ahead.

@michael_w_busch @godzero @czarbucks One day, when you are in a post apocalyptic wasteland, when the last Starbucks has disappeared from the land and the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf wars are over, you'll run across a lonely coffee bush with no beans and thank your lucky stars you know that you can make tea out of the leaves 🤪

@ai6yr @michael_w_busch @godzero

😂

But until next year I still have a few pounds secreted away...

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If you ever drive down to St. Marks Wildlife Refuge during the winter months, it’s hard not to notice the Yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria. The bright, cherry-red berries provide a shock of color along the roadsides in the otherwise dull winter landscape. The shrubs are less noticeable the rest of the

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@jhv @ai6yr @godzero @czarbucks

As I wrote above, I cannot recommend the taste of yaupon.

@michael_w_busch @ai6yr @godzero @czarbucks

Apparently, Mastodon/the Fediverse, in its great wisdom, didn't deign to show me that earlier; it barely let me see this comment. :)

@ai6yr @michael_w_busch @czarbucks
I'm sure Ethiopians didn't call it tea as they had their own word for it. It's most likely a Western interpretation that called it tea.