Local Groungs Exchange
A cooperative system between local Savannah coffee roasters and gardeners
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As an avid coffee drinker, coming to Savannah for a quarter was a challenge as I tried to find some decent coffee spots. Being so interested in coffee, I decided to use that as the basis for my research. Not only were we to select a topic of interest, but also it was meant to have some sense of sustainability.
I began to dig deeper about what coffee was, how it was cultivated and how companies were reusing this natural resource. At first my idea was to find ways to educate consumers about fair- trade coffee v. commercial coffee, but quickly I realized that helping farmers from around the globe would not be easy to do from Savannah. I needed to focus on something more local but still dealing with coffee as its base. With a tip from classmates,i headed to the Forsyth Farmers Market to meet a local coffee roaster. I met Phil from Perc coffee and picked his brain about the process. What I learned was that most by
