Select Varieties | Propagated from Cherry
- Abyssinia Landrace Heritage AB3 | Origin Ethiopia Africa
- Abyssinia / Hybridio di Timor AB7 | Origin Gayo, Sumatra
- Catimor / Typica | Origin Indonesia
- Catuai a cultivar of Mundo Novo x Caturra known as Garnica | Origin Brazil
- Red Bourbon natural cross with Typica known as Mundo Novo | Origin Brazil
- Red Bourbon – a natural bourbon mutation known locally as ‘Onan Ganjang’ | Origin Indonesia
- Red Caturra – a natural mutation of the bourbon variety | Origin Brazil
- Sumatra Typica Heirloom – known locally as ‘Lasuna’ | Origin Ethiopia
- Yellow Bourbon – a natural mutation of the bourbon variety | Origin Brazil
SEEDS or SEEDLINGS
Seeds are all hand selected by Lisa from cherry harvested during peak harvest weeks. Cherry is pulped and fermented briefly to allow for full wash of parchment. The parchment is dried to 15-18 % mc. All seed or seedling purchases come with a Back Bay Estate Variety Certificate of Authenticity. Use links below for more information and to purchase directly from the website shop.
Seedlings are sold as bare root plants
Biodynamic | Organic | Sustainable | Farming & Business Practices
What does all that mean? let’s break it down:
- Biodynamic is all about what you are doing to develop a self sustaining ecosystem for plants, animals and people to thrive in while creating carbon storage in the soil. Included is recycle, reduce, reuse of any farm by-products and planting for pollinators among many.
- Organic is all about what you are NOT doing, like NO herbicides, pesticides or chemical inputs or additives to plants or during fermentation.
- Sustainable is the product life cycle and how the carbon footprint is measured from growing, processing, roasting, shipping the arabica or other agricultural products produced on Back Bay Estate.
Part of the long term business plan to become a self sustaining business was to open a boutique roastery and offer the coffee grown on Back Bay Estate as roasted to order. Back Bay Roastery began in 2016. In 2020, our son Wade in the USA, opened Merantau Coffee Roasters; he roasts to order all of the same selections as Back Bay.
Siamang Forest Project
Back Bay Estate is a 26 hectare farm and forested land with a natural water source. This tropical forest is home to many species of wildlife. We have begun the process to have the forest certified wildlife habitat to protect it for future generations. A lengthy process to be sure. First audit has been done and we received a green light for certification. Until that becomes official, we rely heavily on our customers to help us maintain a sustainable business that allows us to protect the forest from development. Each time you purchase a product or a service from Back Bay Estate, you are making a difference. Thank you!!
Organically Grown & Mindfully Made
Climate Change | How we can make a difference
To do our part here in Simalungun, we decided to protect the fragmented forest that surrounds our coffee farm. This small forest is home to at least 5 species of monkeys and one family of apes, the black gibbon or ‘siamang’. The numerous species of birds, the bees and other ground animals who live here are also protected. Other indigenous animals find their way to our little forest and make their home here. Some of our personal choices:
- We chose to have shade grown coffee, and replant many of the indigenous trees that had been stripped from the forest when we bought the land. Shade tree plantlets are given to farmers in our collective and to any farmer who requests these shade tree plants.
- We make our own organic compost from by products of pulping and hulling coffee, also from the farm hygiene practices of raking leaves and cut grasses within the coffee gardens.
- We do not use pesticide or herbicide.
- Our home and facilities are run on solar power. Our coffee production equipment runs on a generator.
- Rain water is cycled through for basic wash functions.