Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Zihua exporting Coffee to the USA

Zihua exporting Coffee to the USA (reply)

dhunsber — Tue, 28 May 2013 01:37:58 +0000

¡Bien hecho, DonLobo! Glad to know that your herbs are traveling well.
No Trader Joe's near our MI abode, so we grow our own -likewise at our place in AR, too -but there are times in each place that we need to find a better source of fresh basil; we don't quite have the whole year covered.

Zihua exporting Coffee to the USA (reply)

DonLobo — Mon, 27 May 2013 23:15:34 +0000

Definitely good to see. We've been exporting organic basil since 2006. If you live on the west coast of the US and buy the Jacobs Farm or Trader Joe's brands in the winter there's a good chance your basil is from ZIH or Los Cabos, BCS.

Zihua exporting Coffee to the USA (reply)

ZihuaRob — Mon, 27 May 2013 18:05:34 +0000

My FAVORITE coffee!

Actually, we've been exporting this coffee for at least a decade and a half that I know of, but just not in such large quantities as this recent shipment. U.S. coffee importers have been contacting me for many years.

The local market is so depressed many folks in Atoyac are giving up their coffee plantations and selling them or converting them to other crops. The price has been beaten down so low and local infrastructure to get the beans to the market is so inadequate that is isn't profitable for many folks anymore. Let's hope this is the beginning of a reversal in that trend!

Zihua exporting Coffee to the USA (reply)

dhunsber — Mon, 27 May 2013 17:42:33 +0000

Great news...now if I can just persuade on of my local roasters to get hold of some to roast for me...

Zihua exporting Coffee to the USA

Marty — Mon, 27 May 2013 17:17:33 +0000

Good to see agriculture from the Zihuatanjeo area being exported.

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