| Geography of Coffee Matagalpa Study Tours James Hayes-Bohanan , Ph.D. Bridgewater State College Geography UPDATED January 5, 2010  As of January
2009, I will have led three study tours to Nicaragua, as a
credit-bearing course called Geography of Coffee. This page is for
sharing what we have been learning on those tours.Over the past several years, I have expanded this site to include coffee shops, coffee roasters, coffee tours, health effects, and coffee preparation, and have moved that information to other pages. You can continue the exploration at my the main coffee page. Missed the tours? Go to the huge tasting on April 14, 2009. |
 Cafezinho in Florianópolis |
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 "To know the unexplored of northern Nicaragua" After running the tour twice with standard, Managua-based tour companies, we are pleased to be working with Matagalpa Tours this time, a tour operator specializing in the coffeelands of the north. On previous tours, the city-based guides sometimes had more culture shock than my U.S. students, so traveling with experts from the region will be a welcome change for 2009. |
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| The Coffeeland
Landmine
Victims' Trust connects the coffee industry to landmine victims
throughout
the coffee-growing areas of the
world. Unfortunately, this
includes the Contra War area of
Nicaragua. I look forward to
working with the Trust during the 2009 study tour. Our journey will
take us back to Ben Linder's grave in
Matagalpa, but this time we will also go to the Ben
Linder
café in Leon.
This café was established with
the help of Deans Beans. It
honors the martyred North American engineer
while helping farmers and victims of land mines. It is also a source of
something rare in commercial establishments in Nicaragua: a decent cup
of coffee! |
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