Coffee Restaurants

One of the things I found interesting in Uganda was that they grow amazing coffee… but don’t drink it.

I had the hardest time getting our driver, Masandich Moses, to believe that we have entire “coffee restaurants” in the U.S. (Starbucks etc.) He thought I was trying to play a practical joke on him :)

Anyway, he’s supposed to give me a bag of coffee from his plot of land the next time I go back.

Here is a picture of the coffee plants (first time I’d ever seen them). They grow to full size in a year, but then slowly die over the next 3 -5 years and have to be pulled out so that fresh ones can be planted. Pretty interesting stuff…