Mikhail Savin

Here’s where it all starts! In order to get your morning pick-me-up the process has to begin with putting a seed in the ground! Coffee grows most prevalently in the latitudes between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. This area has ideal climate for growing beans and is often referred to as the “bean belt”. Two popular beans of coffee make up most of the coffee selection we know today. Arabic coffee matures in 7 to 9 months and produce large and round cherries. Robusta coffee typically matures in 11 months and produces a smaller, oval shaped cherry. However, before a coffee tree or bush matures to the point of producing fruit, it can take up to 4 years just to get to this point in its ‘career’! (“Where Coffee Grow”)

While the coffee bean was originally discovered in the Middle East, it didn’t take very long for coffee to travel around the globe via merchant ships. Most of the coffee we consume today is actually the product of many different countries from within the bean belt.