Shade produces the world's best coffee

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Growing coffee in a forest where it gets lots of shade makes for the best coffee in the world. Shade-grown coffee requires no external inputs, tastes fantastic, and contributes to a healthy ecosystem. One of Kenya's leading permaculture practitioners, Caleb Omolo, has been experimenting with shade-grown coffee for the past ten years. He shares how and what works in this video!

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  • @winfredathembo5520
    @winfredathembo55202 жыл бұрын

    I am impressed, clearly we need to adapt a more eco friendly system of farming all round. Thank you for this service to human and nature Mr. Caleb

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your kind comment. Caleb indeed is a pioneering farmer and he'd appreciate your support for sure. Stay tuned as more videos about his inspiring food forest and work with different communities are coming up!

  • @thiongogachie2517
    @thiongogachie25172 жыл бұрын

    Caleb, a real permaculturist, walking the talk. Cheers!

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much!

  • @francishunt8969
    @francishunt89692 жыл бұрын

    This man is a national treasure. The govt needs to hire him and go around the country starting with dry areas that receive heavy rains twice or once a year and teach them food forests. Wow am sure this food forest type of farming applies to many other fruit trees or all fruit trees. Why is this not been done in Kenya on commercial farms.

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your kind and encouraging comment. I'd love for the govt to hire people like Caleb to spearhead a new revolution in farming. It'd be so awesome and transformative. Food security and income generation and environmental stewardship can all be achieved on small parcels of land. Why it's not being done commercially? People often need income short-term and money is generally super tight. So it's rare for people to have the foresight to plant a food forest (which admittedly takes some years to fully mature and be productive).

  • @hailus7714
    @hailus77142 жыл бұрын

    In Ethiopia, in the south and the south west where coffee grows, it has been a thousand years tradition to grow coffee in a shade. It was in 19th century that colonizers started growing coffee in a different way.

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. As Caleb describes and demonstrates so beautifully, shade-grown coffee is really far superior in ecological value it provides (as well as taste).

  • @Mystr438

    @Mystr438

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kaffee l drink twice a day! Need to find eco friendly environment for sustainability.

  • @theamazingmg6947
    @theamazingmg69472 жыл бұрын

    I have also hit the notification bell, that when you posted, I can be notified

  • @Ritz2011ful
    @Ritz2011ful2 жыл бұрын

    WOW! Mr. Caleb is a hub of knowledge. I would like to learn more from him.

  • @mmotsenbocker
    @mmotsenbocker Жыл бұрын

    this is a great insight on an important crop, thank you

  • @roccoL508
    @roccoL508 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video. Thanks for sharing.

  • @mintybee5003
    @mintybee50032 жыл бұрын

    Very intelligent man. It gives me lots of ideas

  • @njufunydiy
    @njufunydiy2 жыл бұрын

    Really impressive,

  • @ClamorDiGilgamesh
    @ClamorDiGilgamesh Жыл бұрын

    Underrated video

  • @sophiandethiu2721
    @sophiandethiu27212 жыл бұрын

    I am watching from Machakos County Kenya and wondering how l can get my one acre farm develop into such a beautiful permaculture homestead! Great job!

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Couple of ideas...get in touch with people like Caleb or others I've featured on the channel...do a permaculture course...visit food forests and learn all about them...just get started planting trees and taking care of them...everything else can come later!

  • @francishunt8969
    @francishunt89692 жыл бұрын

    Do the coffee farmers know this. Wow. Imagine the coffee farmers with hundreds of acres in Kenya growing coffee in a forestry like climate. They would get money not only from coffee but avacado, bananas , beans, pumpkin on top of that save costs on use of chemicals, and growing quality coffee and real organic coffee. Then package their coffee as forest coffee to fetch premium prices. This information needs to be passed on to the coffee board and coffee farmers in Kenya.

  • @nonamedontcare9695
    @nonamedontcare96952 жыл бұрын

    This brother should add vanilla bean in to his food forest... he got plenty of tree n vanilla is a high value crop.

  • @ellacarr6037
    @ellacarr60372 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Caleb we need more videos please!

  • @FT__Cool_Stuff______-of5pi
    @FT__Cool_Stuff______-of5pi4 ай бұрын

    I like this guy

  • @crema.television
    @crema.television Жыл бұрын

    This is an incredible video. Would you allow reposting the video on our channel?

  • @mimibon7081
    @mimibon70812 жыл бұрын

    This man is a wealth of knowledge Does he teach classes

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Caleb definitely knows his stuff! He sometimes can be found teaching on permaculture courses, you should definitely try to get in touch with him!

  • @acinamatata6342

    @acinamatata6342

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GrowingSmall please tell me how! I really want to learn

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@acinamatata6342 drop me an email at jaterw@gmail.com and I'll send you his contact details. Cheers!

  • @fitawrarifitness6842
    @fitawrarifitness68422 жыл бұрын

    Science makes everything better

  • @acinamatata6342
    @acinamatata63422 жыл бұрын

    Seriously, how and where can i learn about this? I want the knowledge he has!

  • @bastiangreene8447
    @bastiangreene84472 жыл бұрын

    real permaculture in practice.

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't agree more. Cheers!

  • @LuomamaTed
    @LuomamaTed2 жыл бұрын

    Where is the farm located would like to visit

  • @celestukaless
    @celestukaless2 жыл бұрын

    Proud to be a kenya

  • @GrowingSmall

    @GrowingSmall

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great country :)

  • @women.solo.traveller
    @women.solo.traveller2 жыл бұрын

    👍👍

  • @mandlamwase4194
    @mandlamwase41942 жыл бұрын

    My parents still farm like this organic africa must refuse hybrids seeds and chemicals fertilizers

  • @annkamau2760
    @annkamau27602 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Omolo mimi hapa Mombasa naomba unisaidia na mashauri ya shamba langu tafadhali

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