Free Coffee Grounds for Your Garden @ Starbucks
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https://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-coffee-grounds-for-the-garden
You can pick up a free bag of used coffee grounds to enrich your garden and compost.
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I applaud the recycling/waste reduction idea but I’ve an organic garden and wouldn’t want to introduce pesticides from around the world to it. It might be good to use for ornamemtal container plants or non-edible plants for those who care about that sort of thing.
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@fivetalents Curiousity asking - why would coffee grounds have pesticides in them? Wouldn’t that affect the coffee drinker?
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@mrsguin said in Free Coffee Grounds for Your Garden @ Starbucks:
@fivetalents Curiousity asking - why would coffee grounds have pesticides in them? Wouldn’t that affect the coffee drinker?
Yes, many believe it would affect the health of the coffee drinker over time, especially the more heavily one drinks it and the longer one drinks it over time. Coffee is one of the most popular/in demand crops in the world and, consequently, one of the crops most heavily sprayed with pesticides (to increase yeilds and profits). That means that coffee contains more pesticides than most other foods. I now only drink certified organic coffee since I learned this some years ago.
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@fivetalents OK, what I googled was “A Coffee beans itself is the seed of a ‘cherry-like’ fruit. So there wouldn’t be many chemicals at all on the beans themselves since they are hulled. There is little if any non-natural chemical residue in coffee grounds, especially those grown organically, which Starbucks and most other big coffee suppliers tend to support and promote.”
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@mrsguin said in Free Coffee Grounds for Your Garden @ Starbucks:
@fivetalents OK, what I googled was “A Coffee beans itself is the seed of a ‘cherry-like’ fruit. So there wouldn’t be many chemicals at all on the beans themselves since they are hulled. There is little if any non-natural chemical residue in coffee grounds, especially those grown organically, which Starbucks and most other big coffee suppliers tend to support and promote.”
Pesticides don’t stay where they are sprayed (e.g., rain washes if off and it soaks into the soil) and over-spray falls to the soil. Chemicals in the soil get abdorbed by the plants, just like nutrients, and can not be washed off. Most of Starbucks’s coffee and coffee sold by coffee comoanies is NOT certified organic, no matter how much they claim to support it.
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“Coffee beans go through a lot of processing before they are used; they are washed repeatedly, dried, and roasted, then cooked again when the coffee is made.” By the time they are used grounds, what’s left? All the bad stuff was probably left in the coffee itself.
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To each his own. When it comes to my health, I err on the side of caution.
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My plants prefer a double shot caramel macchiato with skim milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon…in summer they prefer a mocha light frappuccino, hold the cream…gotta work on their beach bodies.
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@angryeyebrows Your plants are just too finicky!
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thanks
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bumping OP
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How long will this last? Hope it’s not one day thing. I’m very interested and want to check it out tomorrow.
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@niniss Its been going on for about a year now.
