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Coffee substitute from trees.(Country conversation & feedback)

By Perry, Michael
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Date: Sunday, July 1 2007

COUNTRYSIDE: I enjoy your magazine and glean some information from each issue.

We have a few Kentucky Coffee Trees (Glymnocladus Dioica) here and I've been told that early settlers used the seed for a coffee substitute. Can anyone tell me how to process the seeds to make this brew? Any information will be very helpful.--Michael Perry, Winamac, Indiana

The Kentucky Coffee Tree is a very cold-hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to about-22[degrees]F. The tree has a light canopy so does not cast much shade. The pods ripen in the fall but don't fall to th

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