| Geography of Coffee Matagalpa Study Tour -- 2009 James Hayes-Bohanan , Ph.D. Bridgewater State College Geography UPDATED July 7, 2009 I have expanded this site's information about 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. This page is about my January 5-15, 2009 study tour in León, Estelí, Matagalpa, and Granada. See my Coffee-Nicaragua page for stories, insights, and photographs from the 2006 and 2007 study tours. |
 Cafezinho in Florianópolis |
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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. This year the journey takes us back to Ben Linder's
grave in
Matagalpa, but also to the Ben
Linder café in León, which 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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 "To
know the
unexplored of northern Nicaragua"
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