The Coffee Route: From Peru’s Chilchos Valley to St. Louis
Missouri History Museum 5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MORegistration not required. FREE and OPEN to high school students and adults. Parking free in Museum lots or in Forest Park.
6 - 7 p.m. Coffee Tasting: Sample Chilchos Valley Peruvian coffee, courtesy of Kuva Coffee!
7 - 8:30 p.m. Presentation
Featured Speaker: Rainer Willi Bussmann, Ph.D., Director and Curator for Economic Botany, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
In 2008, in collaboration with local Kuva Coffee Company, the William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden brought Café Peru Chilchos from Peru’s Chilchos Valley to Local Harvest Grocery here in St. Louis. Join Rainer Willi Bussmann, director and curator for economic botany at the William L. Brown Center, as he discusses this environmentally and economically sustainable coffee.