Busboys and Poets presents ?From Ground to Grounds? on Saturday, March
15, starting with a public coffee tasting of Busboys and Poets? new
coffee blend (available for purchase in 1/2 lb bags beginning that day)
from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
From 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., WRC-TV/NBC news
anchor Wendy Rieger will moderate two presentations: ?Feed
the Cup? by Jeff Taylor, founding CEO of PT?s Coffee Roasting
Company (the roaster that supplies Busboys and Poets with our
delicious direct trade coffee) and ?Dos Locos Gringos in Potenciana,
Costa Rica,? by coffee farmer Michael Pannell.
From 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Rachel Northrop,
author of When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin
American Coffeepeople, will reveal what she learned
during her nine-month investigative journey through Central America
and Colombia and sign her book.
All events throughout the day
are free and open to the public.Â
