Creative Coffee Production in Puerto Rico w/ Dr. Patricia Marie Cordero-Irizarry

Welcome to episode 350 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're talking coffee! As a coffee drinker and soil nerd myself, I was very excited when I met Patricia Cordero at the OAK conference last month and she told me her area of study was soil conservation in coffee production in Puerto Rico. So, naturally, I asked her to come on and talk a bit about the coffee production and soil there and oh boy is it both very awesome with lots of multispecies plantings among the coffee, and also quite sad with the state of agriculture there and farmers struggling to find the labor they need to keep their farms going. But we talk all things coffee from what makes good coffee beans to the techniques they use for soil conservation and so much more. We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666   Links for today:  UK Sustainable Ag program: https://academics.uky.edu/programs/bachelors/sustainable-agriculture-and-community-food-systems     MUSIC from this episode:  Full Circle by Northside via www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers   Show Sponsors:  Tilth Soil!: https://www.tilthsoil.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorYMGkYzMqYdJ8KDqTdMFUg5tw3lx_OSMBZPP6phSXpFhBIyUkT   Certified Naturally Grown: https://www.naturallygrown.org/   Tend: https://www.tend.com/?utm_source=No-Till&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=warm_lead&utm_content=free%20trial     MY BOOK!   The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook   French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot   Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374     Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨    ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook   The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook   Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook   Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat   Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com   👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook    Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers   freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com