Cafe Campesino opens coffee house

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The coffee house also serves all-natural fruit smoothies and hotchocolate. Customers can enjoy a bagel, muffin, scone orfresh-baked bread from Koinonia. Tripp Pomeroy, president of CafeCampesino, said their coffee is only roasted 50 pounds at a time.
Pomeroy commented, “it is easier to maintain strict qualitycontrol standards when only a small batch is roasted at atime.”
He said production manager Maty de Barrios personally makes sureeach 50-pound batch meets company standards.
According to Pomeroy, Cafe Campesino’s style of roastingcoffee can be described as “artisan.”
Pomeroy wants the coffee house to be a place where customers cansocialize, kick back and relax. He said, “CafeCampesino’s coffee and tea is some of the finest in theworld, according to industry standards.”
Pomeroy said Cafe Campesino’s coffee is roasted often socustomers know they are getting a fresh cup of coffee.
Cafe Campesino is “Georgia’s only 100 percent‘Fair Trade’ organic coffee company,” accordingto Pomeroy.
In fact, through information provided by Pomeroy, “aboutthree quarters of all Fair Trade coffee is grown and producedorganically - without the use of any chemicals, fertilizers orpesticides.
Organic practices require farmers to manage their farm as theworking ecosystem that it is and to employ techniques such ascomposting, terracing, and natural pest control.”
Most of these techniques are actually traditional farming methodsthat have been passed down over generations and are more beneficialto the environment because they produce less waste and maintain thenatural shade canopy of the trees.
In order to be certified organic, coffee must:
" have been grown on land without synthetic pesticides or otherprohibited substances for three years.
" have been grown in areas with a sufficient buffer between theorganic coffee and the nearest conventional crop.
" be cultivated within a sustainable crop rotation plan to preventerosion, the depletion of soil nutrients, and control for pests.