Good Food
Growing Coffee Beans in Santa Barbara
Southern California is spoiled with local everything: fish, meat, enough produce to choke a horse and even exotics like dragon fruit and finger lime. But coffee? We can now check that one off the list thanks to Jay Ruskey of Good Land Organics , who grows coffee in Goleta near Santa Barbara.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readSouthern California is spoiled with local everything: fish, meat, enough produce to choke a horse and even exotics like dragon fruit and finger lime. But coffee? We can now check that one off the list thanks to Jay Ruskey of Good Land Organics, who grows coffee in Goleta near Santa Barbara.
You can purchase coffee plants online and at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market from Ruskey’s growing partner, Jim Shanley. Find out how to care for your home coffee plant here.
Music: “Juking” by Delta Moon
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The full episode
1 of 7California Coffee, Sean Brock, Dominique Ansel- 0:00Growing Coffee Beans in Santa BarbaraYou’re reading this
- 9:20Sherry: A Fresh Look at an Old Drink
- 18:15Sean Brock’s Southern Heritage
- 26:14Dominique Ansel: The Father of the Cronut
- 34:38Jonathan Gold Reviews Szechuan Impression
- 43:01Can Instant Noodles Feed the World?
- 50:00A Start-up’s Mission to Hack Mayonnaise