Guests can also enjoy the stupendous views of the lush river valley below while sipping coffee grown and roasted on site.

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Organically grown broccoli and coffee are full of natural substances that are just as carcinogenic as man-made chemicals at high doses and just as safe at low doses.

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They have implemented a program that allows cooperatives to record where coffee is grown and by whom via mobile technology.

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Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez were business students at the University of California, Berkeley, when they first heard in class that mushrooms could be grown entirely on discarded coffee grounds.

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If it's too crowded, try the low-key Coffee Gallery (66-250 Kamehameha Highway, in the North Shore Marketplace, roastmaster.com ), a local favorite that brews its coffee from locally grown beans.

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Worse, the price of coffee, which is grown in similar places to coca, has slumped because of world overproduction, which may induce farmers to switch to coca.

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But as it turns out, the first coffee plant in Europe was grown in the Amsterdam Botanical Garden greenhouses, in 1706.

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Since then, a boom in artisanal coffee culture triggered a kind of arms race in which various trendy descriptors overwhelm the humble coffee beans: organic, fair-trade, shade-grown, locally roasted, etc.

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He had formed this force when he became sheriff, appointed by the old friend, Governor Jim Folsom, with whom he had grown up in the tiny town of Elba, on the Pea River in Coffee County.

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We're half-expecting organically-grown smartphones at Whole Foods, right next to the kale chips and fair trade coffee.

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