Mmmm- we will all need coffee as a “mild” case of asymptomatic sars2 damages our body’s ability to make serotonin. At our brainstem and our gut.
The smell of coffee does bring joy. Since I got long covid and had sepsis, I savor everything as if it will be the last time. Also, since my younger sister killed herself. She was here one minute and seconds later, she was not.
Thus, at the age of 60, I assume that every thing I experience may be the last time.
I will likely be dead by 2050. I won’t see the end of real coffee. ☕️ Maybe we will all be drinking more tea?🫖
I'm the type of coffee fiend who keeps a ten year-old arabica tree as a houseplant. And I swear by my Behmor roaster. I'm saddened to report the coffee tree doesn't bloom every year, and the biggest crop I ever got was enough for about two French presses. Fortunately, my mint-versus-covid odyssey taught me that yaupon can be a decent substitute:
Growing coffee is not as easy as it seems (not that it's all that easy anyway). If you aren't in a mountainous area, the increasing heat and lack of humidity will make it even more difficult. It's a tropical to subtropical crop. There are very good reasons that coffee in the U.S. is pretty much limited to Hawaii. Southern Appalachia might be a good place for a while, assuming enough rainfall. Tea is going to be another drinking crop in climate danger as the temperatures rise.
Well said. That lines up with what I'm reading in threads by people trying to grow their own coffee. Required greenhouse and constant upkeep. Viable in a collapse scenario? Not really, but I wanted to throw it out there.
Mmmm- we will all need coffee as a “mild” case of asymptomatic sars2 damages our body’s ability to make serotonin. At our brainstem and our gut.
The smell of coffee does bring joy. Since I got long covid and had sepsis, I savor everything as if it will be the last time. Also, since my younger sister killed herself. She was here one minute and seconds later, she was not.
Thus, at the age of 60, I assume that every thing I experience may be the last time.
I will likely be dead by 2050. I won’t see the end of real coffee. ☕️ Maybe we will all be drinking more tea?🫖
I'm sorry about your sister. Yes, it's wise to savor everything these days. Of course, if more people had done that we wouldn't be here.
I do savor the
Coffee, but come the crossroads
And I'll choose the booze.
(Hastening my demise, but I could live with that.)
I'm the type of coffee fiend who keeps a ten year-old arabica tree as a houseplant. And I swear by my Behmor roaster. I'm saddened to report the coffee tree doesn't bloom every year, and the biggest crop I ever got was enough for about two French presses. Fortunately, my mint-versus-covid odyssey taught me that yaupon can be a decent substitute:
https://open.substack.com/pub/cbuck/p/mint-vs-covid-a-culinary-perspective
Special bonus - yaupon contains like 100x more of the candidate Covid-fighting compound caffeic acid than coffee does.
Good to know!
Remember the ads for coffee from the 80s with Jeff Lynne singing "hold on tight to your dreams"? LMAO
Growing coffee is not as easy as it seems (not that it's all that easy anyway). If you aren't in a mountainous area, the increasing heat and lack of humidity will make it even more difficult. It's a tropical to subtropical crop. There are very good reasons that coffee in the U.S. is pretty much limited to Hawaii. Southern Appalachia might be a good place for a while, assuming enough rainfall. Tea is going to be another drinking crop in climate danger as the temperatures rise.
Well said. That lines up with what I'm reading in threads by people trying to grow their own coffee. Required greenhouse and constant upkeep. Viable in a collapse scenario? Not really, but I wanted to throw it out there.
Sars2, bird flu and the next thing will kill many of us before we run out of real coffee. ☕️