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Permalink Reply by Eldon Hooley on March 27, 2009 at 6:27am

Yes, in Costa Rica, but I wasn't really tempted to bite into one.

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Permalink Reply by Flavia Celidonio Pogliani on March 27, 2009 at 7:54am

Maybe next time then. Ripe fruits are very sweet!

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Permalink Reply by Brian O'Connell on May 5, 2009 at 8:40am

I picked and tasted coffee cherried in Chiapas, Mexico at a farm that is part of the CIRSA cooperative.

The coffee cherries tasted awesome! Too bad they go bad so fast. I'd eat those things all day.

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Permalink Reply by jonathon samuel on September 6, 2009 at 2:57pm

i grew up on sulawesi-you may recognize the name from from starbucks- just down the road from a plantation, some kids grew up eating apples, i grew up eating coffee cherries

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Permalink Reply by Alun Evans on September 7, 2009 at 1:28am

Yes, I am lucky I live in Indonesia too! Coffee is growing as close as 1kg from where I live. It was a dream to work around coffee, I am very lucky to be doing this. love eating the flesh of the fruit, like ripe ripe black currants.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Marrocco on October 1, 2009 at 11:35pm

My first time was Nicaragua... Way up in northern Nueva Segovia back in '01.

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Permalink Reply by Kathy Fadorsen on October 2, 2009 at 7:35am

We have a small coffee tree in one of our coffee shops. It is not big enough to have fruit yet we can hope someday it will.

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Permalink Reply by Flavia Celidonio Pogliani on October 2, 2009 at 9:45am

Here they grow even on the streets! I myself have found at least three coffee trees in Sao Paulo city, and they were all full of cherry beans last May. I picked some and still have some left in my freezer. Nature is just bloody amazing.


Kayakman said:

to see a real tree is only a dream i have... would love for that dream to come true

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Permalink Reply by Matias Zeledon on February 18, 2011 at 5:58pm

should have, it is an eye opener as the mucilage that covers the bean is full of sugars.  but not bite into it, simply suck on it.

Eldon Hooley said:

Yes, in Costa Rica, but I wasn't really tempted to bite into one.

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