How to handle Scotch bonnet chillies safely, control their heat and prepare golden pumpkin, with five Sri Lankan-style recipes: pumpkin curry, spiced roasted pumpkin, pumpkin...

Why coffee tastes the way it does: species, growing conditions, ripeness, processing, roasting, grinding, brewing and freshness, plus how to taste coffee at home and...

What a handful of cashews gives you: protein, healthy fats, copper and magnesium. Raw versus roasted cashews, how many to eat, allergy advice, and easy...

How we care for our cashew and coffee plantations, and our chilli and pumpkin fields: soil protection, compost and mulch, water management, integrated pest management,...

What trade buyers should know about buying raw cashew nuts, green coffee, Scotch bonnet chillies and golden pumpkins in bulk: quality measures, sampling, grading, packing,...

How coffee cherries are sorted, processed by the washed, natural and honey methods, dried, hulled and graded into green coffee, then roasted and made into...

How raw cashew nuts are dried, steamed, shelled, peeled, graded and packed, what cashew grades such as W240 and W320 mean, and how our harvest...

How golden pumpkins (wattakka) grow, how the vines are pollinated and cared for, how to tell when a pumpkin is ripe, how pumpkins are cured...

What Scotch bonnet chillies are, how hot they are, how they relate to Sri Lanka's nai miris, how we grow and harvest them, how to...

How coffee plants grow, flower and fruit, the difference between Arabica and Robusta, how a coffee plantation is planted and cared for, how ripe cherries...