Coffee has become a passion beyond addiction.

Coffee is a commodity, legal, available, fairly intensive in husbandry and resources, drinkable, fragrant, historical in processing thought, speech, dare I say revolution, and maybe an affair or two. It is a world wide beverage. It is also very American.

Set up an airpot at a flooring business here in Visalia. Monday – Friday. I can brew one for you too!

Just wanted to say

Sally left me for God and her Homecoming on February 11 2018. I got into roasting coffee as a hobby in 2014, and had no idea I was to lose her through cancer. She worried for my health as I did hers. I hope to keep in touch with her partly through coffee as it turned into our favorite cheap date. So ..after the Seattle coffee expo I purchased a second hand gently used Kilo roaster ( from Sonofresco ) which offers a full kilogram of roasted beans in 20 minutes.

Our purpose is to offer around – the – world coffees , roasted fresh, served directly to you. Our retail spot will feature only Aeropress and pourover drink choices as our hand crafted beverages and airpot as our lease option. Of course, we will gladly sell you whole or ground beans , too

Qther than a long trip to Rohnert Park from Visalia, we have had a good time. Some of Sally’s fabric sold , we have fellowship . The non rails had good time with humor, movies and bingo. Ty O. Smith is our banquet speaker who directs the CSRM . Talking about all the items in state archives. He is the manager of “historic Old Town Sacramento” of which the CSRM is an “interest point’. He talks about how California State Parks involvement in urban planning for a bike path along the rail line in Sacramento. Talking about trains! Railroad stories. Museums are becoming more about community, Excellence, Diversity broadly defined. Cross-training, broad-spectrum. Smithsonian Learning Lab. Smithsonian Affiliation. Museum as Campus. Or museums as formal educators. We need to become the campus or the school. Talk about the North Bennett School, Boston, Massachusetts. Cultural and Resource application. Public Charter School for Science Technology Education Art and Mathematics. “Steam”. The view from 30000 feet. “History in service to the future.” Author Pirandello Italian Guiseppe Aymar , Convention Chair. Lots of awards this year!May 2-5 2019 Sacramento! Next year!

Pacific Coast Region, National Model Railroad Association. Hosted by Sierra Division. 2020 in the Daylight Division! Facebook , Twitter feed too.

Attended 2018 Coffee Expo in Seattle this weekend past. Huge, multi-level ( and I do not mean Multi-level marketing ) Exhibit hall. 4th floor was nearly every coffee and food production and assembly , packaging one could want. Sixth floor was roasters, barista displays and free coffee samples. Went to my first course/seminar on coffee instructor is Judge Cohen, Starbucks Dude, and SCA trainer and Board member of the Specialty Coffee Association. We cupped three different coffees an El Salvadoran, Rwanda, and Sumatra.. We tasted coffee prepared in a Chemex pot,, learned the more or less history of coffee. I met lots of folks, attempted to keep my tongue, and had a good time. I learned a lot! I have a lot more to learn! I met Ethiopians Yemenis, Mexicans Columbians, Thai, all with a coffee bent. Sally would have loved it. My concept coffee joint has just changed (!)

Outside Agitator Coffees will serve up Aeropress and gravity brewed coffees only. (Well… Cold brew, too). I am getting in a 30 kilo box of a Papua New Guinea bean ( proximity to Australia) which has a good body and mouth feel . It also looks like I will have a line on a kilo roaster from Sonofresco. I took delivery of some Mexican origin beans as 300 gram samples. The seminar and the two day pass I purchased was worth it to me. Overly caffeinated, somewhat, cognizant of the challenges in the business of Farm to Table even in the coffee business. We who roast , even for fun and education need to see our parts in the chain of supply, the history, the place coffee holds in our American Adventure.