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Watch Coffee Trees Sprout in This Trippy New Video

December 15, 2015 By Michael 3 Comments

SproutWhat happens when you plant 100 coffee cherries you picked in Costa Rica? Turns out some pretty crazy stuff. Kávékalmár, the same creative team behind these genre-defining short films, just released a project 150 days in the making.

SPROUT – BABNEVELDE from Kavekalmar on Vimeo.

Edited down from over 200,000 frames of footage, SPROUT features a time elapse of the first months of a coffee tree’s life. We watch as coffee beans eerily emerge from the soil in an almost zombie-like fashion. Then, in a surprise burst of color, the first leaves appear.

For all the seed-to-cup education that has taken place over the last decade, few coffee drinkers have any meaningful connection to the agricultural processes that produce their morning cup. SPROUT offers a rare glimpse at those first, precious steps. Hats off to Gabor Laczko and company, who continue to outdo themselves!

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Filed Under: Stories, Videos Tagged With: Gabor Laczko, Kávékalmár

About Michael

Michael Butterworth is an authorized instructor of the Specialty Coffee Association and the inventor of the Etkin Dripper.. He cofounded the Coffee Compass mostly as an excuse to visit more coffee shops. For consulting and training enquiries please visit butterworth.coffee.

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  1. Molly says

    January 29, 2016 at 7:10 am

    What a fab way to see how my favourite hot drink starts out! Easy to forget it was once a plant. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Andrea says

    February 3, 2016 at 7:52 am

    Didn’t think I’d enjoy this video so much, kind of fascinating really! thanks for sharing!

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    March 15, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    […] again with a new video about making espresso by hand. It’s a little less ambitious than their last video project, but the above mountain of spent espresso pucks shows just some of the sacrifices one has to make […]

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