| Geography of
Coffee Matagalpa Study Tours James Hayes-Bohanan , Ph.D. Bridgewater State College Geography UPDATED January 3, 2012  As of January
2012, I will have led six 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.This part of my web site began with these reports from the field, but over the past several years, I have expanded this site to include coffee shops, coffee roasters, coffee tours, health effects, coffee preparation, and even coffee romance. You can now continue the exploration at my the main coffee page, but Matagalpa/Jinotega stuff is all right here! STUDY
TOURS
January 2006 ~~ January 2007 ~~ January 2009 January 2010 ~~ January 2011 ~~ January 2012 Missed the tours? Go to the huge tasting on April 5, 2012 or look for other coffee outreach events. In-service teachers who would like a summer tour, please let me know! It might need to be in a different part of the world, though. |
 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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