(We're a smidge late, thanks for reading!)
In the heat we become mammals. We remember we have bodies, limbs flapping around under harsh, probing sunlight. The grass is dry, the sky grotesquely blue and clear. We want to roll around in the shade, we want to press our faces into bird baths and running streams of water. The breeze rolls through, pushing warmth into our shelters, and we aim fans in strange directions. At the beach we dig our feet into the sand where its damp and cold. Ice to our heads, ice melting down our wrists. The coconut smell of sunscreen. The days are long and random and we take calls from old friends and pace around through hot dry parks, catching up as the sweat collects at our necks. On the walk home there is a goldfinch on the drive. It flutters into the grass, into the pear trees. Soon the heat will break, the sun will crack down like an egg yolk, the clouds will be orange and pink, and you will wonder if you might ever lick the sky, lap it up like a big, hungry dog.
This July, we are delighted to offer our Coffee of the Month Club pick, Agahore Station.
Growing in the center of Burundi, this coffee grows at the Agahore farm along the Mubarazi
River that stretches across the province. Clean and brisk, Agahore is unique in its distinct tea-like flavor, though a little less fruited than most wet-processed lots. The notes will fly across your tongue and glimmer in the air like transparent nouns: rooibos, Assam, chocolate, sugar, peach skins, lemon, whole clove, bitters syrup.
At the Agahore farm, producers use the river to access water for wet-processing after using a water separation and filtration system to clean out dirt and detritus. Community involvement is integral to the farm, and workers receive an extra payment after the coffee is sold as well as health insurance for themselves and their families. The managers of the farm also provide them with a fertilizer program including free goats.
Subscribe to the club before the end of the month and receive a bag of Agahore Station. Every month you’ll receive a new featured coffee—subscribe for a year, six
months, three months, even just one or until canceled. Agahore Station will be available to
non-subscribers in August for a higher price, if there is any left.
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