Having the Only Allowed Drug

While away for the past 10 days, we spent a week in Whiteriver, Mpumalanga and got a chance to go buy Sabie Valley Coffee straight from its makers.

Up until that day I had never heard of the word ‘barista’. All I knew is after work we’d take a drive to Pieter Coffee’s (yes, that’s his real surname) friend Tim Buckland to buy coffee and Tim farms his own coffee. Tim and his wife have a farm (Sabie Valley) and have about 30 000 coffee trees that they make the most amazing coffee from, and when you’re at their farm/shop the great coffee aroma just blows you away.

In this picture, Tim’s wife (Kim) shows us a few of the smaller trees where they get the coffee beans from. She also took us through their roastery – it’s the stuff coffee addictions are made of… pure art. These guys coffee is incredibly tasty and it doesn’t get fresher than getting it from the source.

Until I started working church leaders I had never seen people who know and love their coffee like my fellow leaders do, and when I asked one such leader (Tim Sprowson) why it is that Christian leaders love their coffee, he replied: “It’s the only drug we’re allowed.”

We bought 4 packets to try out all their coffee variations so consider yourself invited for coffee :)

Visit the Sabie Valley Coffee site here: http://www.sabievalleycoffee.com