Yesterday, the Kitsap Sun’s Rachel Brant wrote about Mike Noster, a Lake Symington man who has spent the last six years cultivating coffee beans in a greenhouse in his backyard. Coffee beans can grown in the Pacific Northwest? Apparently.

From the article:
"Mike Noster now has about 400 coffee beans almost ripe for the picking….The retired submariner and longtime Kitsap County resident started with at least 20,000 seeds and, out of those thousands, only about 400 plants had sprouted six to 10 inches [since] 2007."

20,000 seeds for 400 beans. Is it just me, or does Noster seem like the perfect subject for one of those Pemco Insurance "Northwest Profiles" ads? You know: Sandals and Socks guy, Blue Top Camper, Relentless Recycler. (Formerly known as OCD Recyler, you can kind of guess what happened there.)

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