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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 a coffee educator, consultant, and writer. He cofounded the Coffee Compass mostly as an excuse to visit more coffee shops. For consulting 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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