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Re: Shade-grown coffee



Folks,

You can get San Ramon Coffee at the Durham Friends (Quaker) meeting on Sunday mornings, which is next door to the Ronald Mc Donald House near Duke campus. I believe the Durham Friends also have a connection with the people in San Ramon. I have consumed 2 pounds of it so far, it is top rated coffee in my book.

Randy Emmitt
Rougemont, NC

At 03:24 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, John Connors wrote:
Hi birders. With all the recent talk about birds and shade-grown
coffee...and particularly with Josh's mention of San Ramon, Nicaragua
and its connections to Durham, NC via the Finca Esperanza shade-grown
coffee plantation...thought some folks might be interested in the birds
that have been found in that part of Nicaragua. The Finca Esperanza is
an eco-tourist coffee plantation that has been set up by a group out of
Durham as a way to help the locals in San Ramon improve their economic
situation while promoting sustainable agriculture and protection of
natural resources. I have taken 2 excursions to the Finca, last year
leading a group of 7 Audubon birders in late February. It is exciting
and educational to live within a shade-grown coffee plantation and see
first-hand how it operates and accomodates many species of animals. We
identified over 160 species of birds including Toucans, Motmots,
Parrots, Bellbird, Manakins, 7 species of Humminbirds...along with 25+
neo-tropical migrants. Orioles, grosbeaks and many of our warblers
drinking nectar from the blossoms of Erythrina trees.We also saw many
mammals and herptiles. I mention this because Dave Davenport, an expert
Naturalist with extensive international experience, and I are leading
another birdwatching trip to San Ramon this spring...April 4-13. These
are low cost trips (~$2000) with the bulk of the money staying with the
locals as they try to build an Ecotourist business. We still have a few
spaces so if you are interested let me know. I can e-mail you our bird
list. To find out more about the Finca Esperanza project...visit their
website@ <http://www.durham-sanramon.org>. Thanks, John Connors @ NC
Museum of Natural Sciences.