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Woodland Coffee Tree certificates on their way! :)

Woodland Coffee Tree certificates on their way! 🙂

Woodland Coffee is only 24 months old.  Launched during the frustrating dark Covid days of October 2020; the timing was nothing short of awful, but this choice of poor timing was overwhelmed by our impatience to get our lives moving again; this meant we couldn’t wait...

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Our Woodland Plantation Update 2022

Our Woodland Plantation Update 2022

I took a visit to our Woodland Coffee plantation in Knockballyfookeen between the villages of Oola and Pallasgreen in August 2022.  As you can see from the short video, the weather was amazing and the trees were performing well considering the dry conditions that we...

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The Colour of Coffee

The Colour of Coffee

The flavour in your cup of coffee is influenced by many factors such as the how it's brewed, who’s making it and of course the type and roast profile of coffee bean being used or otherwise known as colour.  The factors behind the colour of the coffee are: 1 Origin...

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The Health Benefits of Coffee

The Health Benefits of Coffee

Over the decades numerous studies have been carried out into the effects of coffee consumption on human health and it seems that the scientific research backs up what we already knew.  Coffee makes us feel alert, energised and gives us that burst of energy and...

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Our Spring Biodiversity Project

Our Spring Biodiversity Project

It finally feels like Spring is here, after the last few months of named storms colliding with each other, we have had some fine weather to get out on about.  Karl While and his daughter, Ruby, did just that; they were out over the weekend on our woodland in...

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Preparing your coffee business in the face of rising costs

Preparing your coffee business in the face of rising costs

So what should you do? It seems that just about every cost is rising around us at the moment, fuel, electricity, milk, flour - you name it; it’s going up in price.  It looks like a good dose of inflation is on the cards for everyone but what, if anything, should you...

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Growing Coffee and Biodiversity

Growing Coffee and Biodiversity

The frost damage and drought to the Brazilian coffee crop earlier this year has sent commodity prices for raw green beans soaring by over 50% and is leading to a worldwide shortage of green coffee beans.  Climate change is certainly to blame but intensive agricultural...

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