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“What’s this about hanging coffees?” @ Beach Organics, Plant 4

I’ve always given heavily discounted coffees to people who drop by our Store and look as if they’ve been sleeping “rough”. This morning I noticed this on a friends FB page and decided to implement the concept at our Beach Organics Store at PLANT 4 BOWDEN SA. by Karen Brady Author November 26, 2019 ? There […]

Rare French lever press coffee machine – Not your average shop!

Our 80 year old, fully restored, rare French lever press coffee machine delivers a delicious coffee .. and makes the perfect accompaniment to our superb San Remo Opera espresso machine. Volcanic eruptions have enriched and remineralised soils in Indonesia for 1,000’s of years. These rich, biodiverse and beautiful “food forest” farming systems are my preferred […]

Kintamani Coffee from our unique Traditional Farmers Network

Direct from our unique Traditional Farmers Network … Our latest harvest of organically grown Kintamani coffee has arrived. We vacuum pack at source enabling us to pass it through Australian Quarantine without fumigation. We then roast our green beans every week ensuring the freshest beans are available to our customers. Track us down at our […]

Direct from our Coffee Contacts in Northern Sumatra

Direct from our coffee contacts in Northern Sumatra, a fine single origin washed and natural coffee, shaping up pretty well in our roaster. Looking forward to offering these with our other Indonesia beans. Thanks Kevin, for taking these photos!

Variety is the Spice of Life here at Beach Organics

Variety is the spice of life … an apt metaphor for our endeavors at Beach Organics. Ten years in the making, the Beach Organics Coffee Project is now capable of producing delicious organically grown coffee, paying farmers approximately six times more than the current fair trade price. We vacuum pack our precious green bean stock […]

Beach Organics Coffee travels to Western China

It always gives us immense pleasure to see our Products enjoyed far and wide! This time, Beach Organics Coffee travels to Western China. Put through their Slayer, I am sure it lived up to their expectations!

CASCARA – in Yemen and Ethiopia they call it HASHARA

This intriguing & fragrant drink is made from coffee peel! With a low caffeine content, its delicious and refreshing and not dissimilar to rosehip or hibiscus tea when infused in hot water! In Yemen and Ethiopia they call it HASHARA, where its often enjoyed with ginger, nutmeg or cinnamon. In the west we call it […]

The wonderful flavour and medicinal properties of Tamarind Paste

When I first travelled to the tropics on my early surf trips, I immediately fell for the wonderful flavour and medicinal properties of tamarind paste. Hence our Tamarind Project came into being. The production of our hand scraped and de seeded wild tamarind paste requires time and patience! Its production supports small village scale enterprises, […]

Luscious Raw Organic Chocolate

It’s a long way up … Here I am climbing a bamboo ladder in Central Java! Its a beautiful food forest, with abundant bio diversity, coffee, cacao, pepper, mangoes, papaya, Javanese turmeric – Temu Lewak, ginger etc. When I reach the canopy and abundance of palm flowers, a vessel is placed to capture the luscious […]

Mango Honey Chocolate Mousse

RAW Mango Honey Chocolate Mousse by Beach Organics. Perfect for those times when you’re looking for a simple and delicious treat! Blossom honey + raw organic chocolate + genuine cold pressed coconut oil available at our Store at PLANT 4 BOWDEN or check it out here online www.beachorganics.com.au

Since our last post!

Phew, a lot has happened at Beach Organics since our last post! We’re happy to say our latest harvest of organic coffee beans from Indonesia have arrived safely. We vacuum pack all our green beans at source and carefully navigate them through Australian quarantine without the usual pesticide fumigation that most coffees in Australia are […]

Marriage Made in Heaven

Is this marriage made in heaven? Organic coffee and cacao …. Whilst we’ve been busy in our PLANT 4 BOWDEN STORE and on our organic farm planting our new fruit forest, our good friends in Indonesia have been busy harvesting our latest batch of organic coffee and cacao. We use this to make our raw […]

Beach Organics Coffee Roastery

The Beach Organics Coffee Project ….. It’s a Thursday afternoon and we have our coffee roaster running flat chat, roasting our direct / fair traded organic beans from the Kintamani region, Indonesia. Our latest harvest of single estate – organic beans have been hand picked, processed and vacuum packed at source and it’s ready to […]

Organic Chocolate is Ready!

Another batch of our organic raw chocolate ready to hit the shelves at our Store at PLANT 4 BOWDEN. I decided to place a Brazil nuts on this chocolate run…. rich in selenium, making it good for eye health and other bodily functions. “Bean to bar”, vegan, gluten free and luscious! We also sell our […]

Coffee Project

Ten or so years ago I became interested in the Australian coffee industry and its social and environmental implications. We had our Traditional Farmers network well and truly established and some of our farming friends had coffee growing within their beautiful food forest farming systems. It seemed logical to “piggy back” their organically grown green […]

Featuring A Few Specials

We’ve been busy of late preparing our garden beds for summer crops, travelling to the edge of the Nullabour looking at bush foods, receiving our latest harvest of Black Java tea, lemon grass, rosella flowers & long pepper directly from our Traditional Farmers network and working on menu ideas for our new Store at PLANT […]

Rain Forest Alliance

Late 2016 we had the privilege of being escorted around some superbly managed Rain Forest Alliance accredited tea estates in Darjeeling and Assam in Northern India. We’re delighted to offer our final selection of these teas to our customers at PLANT 4 BOWDEN and the MARKET SHED ON HOLLAND ST!

“Coffee Bean to Cup”

It always gives me immense satisfaction when we pull off a true “paddock to plate”, “coffee bean to cup” or “cacao bean to bar” concept. Here we have our latest crop of organic green coffee beans picked, processed, shipped and finally roasted for our customers enjoyment. Single estate and “direct” trade at its best through […]

Darjeeling Tea

Beach Organics on the road again … this time in search of the perfect tea, to serve in our new PLANT 4 STORE at BOWDEN! Naturally we ended up on a beautiful tea estate in Darjeeling in the lower Himalaya. With the last of the leaf plucked from the bushes at the end of November […]

Coffee Project

The Beach Organics Coffee Project initially evolved from a personal passion for delicious coffee.Funding from the SA Food & Beverage Fund enabled me to explore the craft and science of coffee roasting with Peter Wolff from Wolff Coffee in Brisbane.Co-incidentally, over the last decade Beach Organics has also established a unique and extensive Traditional Farmers […]

Swing past and say hello!

We’ve recently swung our doors open to our new project – the Beach Organics Store at PLANT 4 Bowden SA!Coffee officindos will love our “bean to cup” coffee project … we’re serving our in-house roasted organic beans imported directly from our unique Traditional Farmers network in Indonesia. Did you know we’re currently paying around 8 […]

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