Fair trade just got fair-er. 

I’m so excited about this project! 

Some brilliant person discovered that you can roast coffee beans AT HOME. In an air popcorn popper! I can’t wait to try this experiment! 

The instructions for this project state that home roasting is an activity best left for outside, so, it looks as though I’m not going to be able to try this until I go to my New York home. 

Any cooking / do it yourself project is RIGHT up my alley (in fact, I would go so far to say that this “alley” is actually a 6 lane highway), so this is exactly the kind of project that I want to try, pronto. 

I am also excited about this because it means that I can buy green coffee beans, fair trade. Meaning, skip out the roaster in the already small procession between the farmer and my coffee mug. Oh. Oh. I am so very excited about trying this at home. 

Home roasting is also a lot less money. Yes, I am willing to spend a little more per pound on fair trade coffee. No doubt about it, but this cuts the cost by roughly $4 less per pound! That’s nuts.

It’s also convenient that my house comes equipped with a positively archaic air popcorn popper in the closet of my dining room. Score.