Climate change is wreaking havoc all over the world. Coffee farms are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Coffee farms are along the equatorial belt which is where the most extreme climate changes have been occurring for the last 15 years or more. 

The last 5 years have seen a massive increase in the impact of global climate change on coffee. It's the primary driver for the all time record high prices of the New York C Price for commercial coffee reaching over $4.00 a lb for the first time ever. A record that was long overdue and will eventually help coffee farmers.

For the last 100 years or so coffee farmers  have kept Variety Gardens at their farms. The purpose of these variety gardens was two fold:

1. A nursery for growing new seedlings
2. A laboratory to test which new coffee varietals will work best on their farm to bring the best flavors and yield

That has been changing radically. Now a days the purpose of a variety garden has taken on new urgent purposes. For today's coffee farmers the new Variety Garden is to:

1. A climate laboratory to test which varietals survive climate change - at their farm
2. A nursery for growing these successful new seedlings

Because if the coffee tree doesn't survive climate change it doesn't matter how good it tastes if it's dead. Sad news.

Which brings us to this Variety Garden Mystery Box!!

We have 10 of Edwin Martinez coffees he painstakingly hand harvested, hand wet milled and hand dry milled and then sent them all to us. Cause we are crazy. Some of these lots are as small as 7lbs total, some are as 'large' as 85lbs total. But typically a bag of coffee is 150lbs and we tend to buy 10-20x 150lb bags. So these are ridiculously tiny.

Because these coffee are incredibly expensive and remarkably tiny in size we figured let's make it fun and make a Mystery Box!! That way you can order it as long as we have these coffees and you will get in each box:

1. Two 250g/8oz bags of Edwin's magical variety garden coffees
2. A delightful mini sampler of Coffee Blossom Honey from Edwin's farm
3. Some other fun goodies and gifts!

Each coffee will be amazing and labeled with the varietals and lot #. But the mystery is we decide each week which of the 10 unique coffee varietals will be in the box that week!

A few of the Climate Change Resistant Varietals will be in your Mystery Box:

1. Anacafe 14
2. Catimor Amarillo
3. Catuai Rojo
4. Villa Sarchi
5. San Ramon