IIve just discovered this great coffee grown in
Canada
http://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/
Has anyone visitied their plantation in BC?

The Kicking Horse Kickass is amazing dark!

Grown in Canada????

I think if you closer, you will find it is roasted in Canada but grown elsewhere.


454 HORSE POWER [DARK]

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Easily the most powerful concoction that we’ve created, the 454 Horse Power is an Indonesian-based heavy-bodied coffee with a taste of earthiness.

It's great coffee indeed, but I do think that irecommend is slightly confused about which of Colombia's agricultural exports is also grown in British Columbia.

Grown in Canada - thats precious.

The power of marketing - it can even accomplish what it isn't trying to.

Never under estimate the power of plate tectonics. The Columbian Plate has rapidly migrated northward and is near to colliding with Vancouver Island.

The plate is now close enough to be made a marketing neighbor of Canada if not a physical addendum. Marketing firms will of course use any ploy to help sell more coffee.

Fortunately the migrating tectonic plate brought its own sunshine so that the Columbian coffee growing climate remains undisturbed by any potential shift in geographic and climatological conditions.

The movement of the plate was so subtle that it crept past Los Angeles in the early morning hours and the tremors felt in San Francisco were attributed to random movement along the San Andreas fault.

Perhaps by 2012, the plate will have collided with Vancouver Island, and Colombia will become geographically annexed to Canada.

That will of course lead to major debates over acquisition, governance, and provincial status.

If the positioning of the plate is such that Colombia is very close to the US, the US Border Patrol may need to build another fence.

Stay tuned for the latest in tectonic plate movement and resulting political issues.

when i went out to the nurseries on this Saanich Peninsula today looking for coffee plants, they told me i was confusing British Columbia w/ Colombia, but if i said "hace un cafe" 3 times i might turn into a coffee plant and they would be happy to clone me.

if that plate comes close enough will we have a nice hit of the US "so called" war on drugs coming over on the Coho from Port Angeles?

Since planting Day in Victoria is not till the May long weekend, i imagine our coffee growing season will b short. Maybe this stuff is being grown next to a hot springs in the Kootenays

cheers
AndrewDavid

I have examined the bag so closely and I must be a dumbie cause I thought it would be impossible too to grow coffee in Canada. But it doesnt mention any other country and says Product of Canada on the front.
So I was duped I guess.

There was a recent Marketplace story about the "Product of Canada" (potentially) misleading labelling.

Quote from the Marketplace story:

"But here's the thing. "Product of Canada" doesn't actually mean the food is from around here. All it means, legally speaking, is that at least 51% percent of its production costs were spent in Canada."

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/product_of_canada_eh/

So, in this case the roasting and packaging is allows it to have that label.

Hi there,

Kicking Horse Coffee, especially their Peruvian blend, is the best!

I find it very hard to drink anything else...though right now I am drinking Jamaician Blue Mountain Coffee and it is definitely up there with Kicking Horse.

Of course, you have to get in the beans and grind it yourself...

I'll never go back to a non-organic coffee again.

Hmmmmm..they said "grass" wouldn't grow in Canada, too.....

I know it sounds nuts but I was originally thinking something like greenhouses were a possiblilty.
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/homegrowing.htm

Yes irecomend, but coffee fetches how much per pound?
I think I will stick with my regular crop.
HaHa.

What an idea--fair-trade coffee grow-ops in the Kootenays!