Meadowlark Mercantile – handcrafted with love in Ashland, Oregon

Featured Products

Coffee

small-batch roasted

Soap

all-natural

Candles

hand-poured/dipped

Provisions

coming soon

Notes from the Meadow

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Coffee Preservation and Drying

Coffee was first harvested and processed out of necessity, not for taste. Fresh coffee cherries rot quickly, so early growers learned to dry the fruit or the seed to preserve it. The natural (dry) process emerged first because it required nothing beyond sun, air, and time.