Coffee made in the USA? It’s happening

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Reuters highlights a story where a farmer in California started growing 20,000 coffee trees. Only two other US states grow coffee — southern Florida and Hawaii, due to their tropical climate. However, thanks to climate change, a city 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles is also starting to grow coffee.

Typically countries like Kenya, Colombia and Vietnam have grown coffee due to their need for constant heat. But climate change is having a negative impact on some coffee-growing areas. Brazil is going through the worst drought in over 90 years. That, compounded by unexpected frosts, damaged about 10% of their trees, hurting coffee production this year and next.

Coffee uses 20% less water than most fruit and nut trees, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, so many farmers are switching crops to deal with limits on water use. And that includes coffee.

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