Do you live in or near the Cache Valley areas of Idaho and Utah? If so, and if you have something to sell related to agriculture, I have good news. Cache Vally Ag Exchange is a new website dedicated to farmers, ranchers, and home gardeners in Cache Valley and the surrounding areas.
At CacheValleyAgExchange.com you can post free classified ads related to buying or selling agricultural related goods and services. It’s simply a better way to help connect the agriculture community of Cache Valley.
Tommy
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I am pleased to announce the opening of a new online coffee store. Just this week I launched Get Your Coffee Online, a one stop shopping center for all your coffee needs.
With the hectic lifestyles we all live today it’s sometimes hard to slow down to enjoy a good cup of coffee at home. Many people utilize the popularity of Starbucks and other chains to get their morning fix.
Get Your Coffee Online makes the process of saving money on coffee easier and more convenient. We offer a full line of gourmet coffees, coffee makers, espresso machines, and coffee gifts for any budget.
Visit GetYourCoffeeOnline.com today and enjoy the convenience of having your coffee shipped directly to your door. Enjoy!
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The game of golf has really taken off in popularity throughout the country. Many great courses exist in the Western United States.
To find courses, check your yellow pages. Almost all courses have regular PGA professionals on staff that can provide golf lessons if your game is lacking.
Visit a course today and enjoy the beauty of the West!
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Once known as the foreclosure capital of the world, Stockton, California will begin spending $12 million in federal housing aid in April.
Homeowner’s struggling to make mortgage and debt consolidation loan payments have left thousands of homes in disrepair in Stockton.
The spending will likely go to nonprofit groups that plan to flip the abandoned homes. A project of this nature will improve neighborhoods and help those who might not otherwise be able to purchase a home.
There are currently an estimated 5,000 bank-owned properties in Stockton.
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Coffee has been in use since the ninth century. Known (or thought) to prevent illnesses of the stomach, coffee was taken daily by those who believed in its power.
By the mid 1800’s, coffee was decidedly a popular drink in America. It has now secured its place as an important commodity and is widely used.
Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia outlining the coffee roasting process. Enjoy!
Coffee berries and their seeds undergo several processes before they become the familiar roasted coffee. First, coffee berries are picked, generally by hand. Then they are sorted by ripeness and color and the flesh of the berry is removed, usually by machine, and the seeds—usually called beans—are fermented to remove the slimy layer of mucilage still present on the bean. When the fermentation is finished, the beans are washed with large quantities of fresh water to remove the fermentation residue, which generates massive amounts of highly polluted coffee wastewater. Finally, the seeds are dried, sorted, and labeled as green coffee beans. A traditional way to let the coffee beans dry is to let them sit on a cement patio and rake over the beans till dry. Other companies use cylinders to pump in heated air to dry the coffee beans.
The next step in the process is the roasting of the green coffee. Coffee is usually sold in a roasted state, and all coffee is roasted before it is consumed. It can be sold roasted by the supplier, or it can be home roasted. The roasting process influences the taste of the beverage by changing the coffee bean both physically and chemically. The bean decreases in weight as moisture is lost and increases in volume, causing it to become less dense. The density of the bean also influences the strength of the coffee and requirements for packaging. The actual roasting begins when the temperature inside the bean reaches 200°C, though different varieties of beans differ in moisture and density and therefore roast at different rates. During roasting, caramelization occurs as intense heat breaks down starches in the bean, changing them to simple sugars that begin to brown, changing the color of the bean. Sucrose is rapidly lost during the roasting process and may disappear entirely in darker roasts. During roasting, aromatic oils, acids, and caffeine weaken, changing the flavor; at 205°C, other oils start to develop. One of these oils is caffeol, created at about 200°C, which is largely responsible for coffee’s aroma and flavor.
Depending on the color of the roasted beans as perceived by the human eye, they will be labeled as light, medium light, medium, medium dark, dark, or very dark. A more accurate method of discerning the degree of roast involves measuring the reflected light from roasted beans illuminated with a light source in the near infrared spectrum. This elaborate light meter uses a process known as spectroscopy to return a number that consistently indicates the roasted coffee’s relative degree of roast or flavor development. Such devices are routinely used for quality assurance by coffee-roasting businesses.
Darker roasts are generally smoother, because they have less fiber content and a more sugary flavor. Lighter roasts have more caffeine, resulting in a slight bitterness, and a stronger flavor from aromatic oils and acids otherwise destroyed by longer roasting times. A small amount of chaff is produced during roasting from the skin left on the bean after processing. Chaff is usually removed from the beans by air movement, though a small amount is added to dark roast coffees to soak up oils on the beans. Decaffeination may also be part of the processing that coffee seeds undergo. Seeds are decaffeinated when they are still green. Many methods can remove caffeine from coffee, but all involve either soaking beans in hot water or steaming them, then using a solvent to dissolve caffeine-containing oils. Decaffeination is often done by processing companies, and the extracted caffeine is usually sold to the pharmaceutical industry.
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