Morning
caffeine is a guilty pleasure that whispers in a voice too alluring for me to
resist. That’s probably true for you,
too. But I read in a Treehugger blog
that some Spartan souls give up the magical bean because of the costly distance
it has to travel from where it is grown to where you keep your coffee
maker. Costly in fuel and costly in carbon
and costly in cleared jungle and a whole lot of other things that some people
find important enough to quit drinking it.
C’mon! Not me. And, I hope, not you. One thing is for sure;
it's generally a long journey for coffee beans to travel from exotic climes to
the kitchen counter. The Kona Cowboy
Coffee Company brings in coffee beans from Kona, Hawaii, Central America,
Indonesia and Ethiopia. So instead of
quitting and putting a lot of people out of work, let’s honor those coffee
beans and coffee growers and coffee processors and coffee haulers and more with
some extra chores before condemning the used coffee beans to the trash. For
those who add their spent dregs to the compost bin, yeah, you can still do so
in many of these applications once their mission has been accomplished.
1.
Soften
Skin
Exfoliate with a body scrub made of coffee grounds, coconut oil, and a little
brown sugar. Gently massage it on in the shower, rinse, be soft. The Kona Cowboy Coffee Company manufactures
many coffee bath products, such as Regina, Queen of the West, Cowboy Coffee
Soap, Sweet Coffee Scrub and Coffee Bath Soak.
Check them out on our website at KonaCowboyCoffee.com
2.
Please
the Flowers
Use coffee grounds as mulch for acid-loving plants – like roses, azaleas,
rhododendrons, evergreens, hydrangea, and camellias – they like coffee grounds
for the natural acidity and nutrients they add to the soil.
3.
Sadden
the Ants
Sprinkle your coffee grounds around areas of ant infestation to deter them.
4.
Deter
Gastropods
Yes, gastropods. You don’t have to look them
up, just know that used grounds are said to repel snails and slugs. Oh, they’re gastropods. Just sprinkle the grounds in problem areas.
5.
Simplify
Fireplace Cleaning
Before cleaning the fireplace, sprinkle with dampened used coffee grounds. Ah ha!
The damp coffee grounds weigh down the ash and thus they eliminate
clouds of smoke-flavored dust.
6.
Make a
Sepia Dye
Soak used grounds in hot water and use as a dye bath for Easter eggs, fabric,
and paper for a lovely, soft brown tinge.
My father once dyed a pair of white but stained tennis shoes in coffee
and it worked!
7.
Keep Cats
at Bay
I know, I love ‘em, too. But sometimes
they get where they shouldn’t be. Keep kitties
out of the garden with a mixture of orange peel and used coffee grounds
distributed around plants. If you live
in an area like we do it’s not a problem because you don’t dare let them out
lest they become lunch for a mountain lion.
8.
Encourage
the Carrots
Here’s a way to boost a carrot harvest.
Simply mix the seeds with dried coffee grounds before sowing. The extra
bulk makes the tiny carrot seeds easier to sow and the grounds, with that wonderful
coffee aroma, can nourish the soil and help repel pests.
Do you want FREE
coffee? The very first cowpoke who
saunters up to the Kona Cowboy Coffee Company’s Cowboy Coffee Saloon at the
Ruidoso (NM) Convention Center’s Lions Gun Show, May 26-27, and asks for it,
will get a free, that’s FREE bag of CAFÉ PINON de Nuevo Mexico…our newest
fusion coffee made with a proprietary blend of central American coffees and
real New Mexico pinon nuts!
You know you’re a coffee fiend when people can test their batteries in your ears. So
enjoy your coffee, make it Kona, and remember, Kona is the home of the Hawaiian
cowboy…and we had cowboys in Kona before there were cowboys in Texas!
