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Show Grov Morning Coffee In His Own Backyard GLOUCESTER, MASS. When a friend complained of the coffee shortage to Carmello Capillo, he just grinned: "Why don't you plant some yourself?" your-self?" They're hardy folk in this old fishing fish-ing port been going down to the sea in ships for more than three centuries but Capillo's off-hand remark re-mark shook them. "The soil right here in Gloucester is perfect for coffee raising," said the 56-year-old soda water concessionaire. conces-sionaire. "It's just that folks around here never tried to raise .coffee beans before." Sure, Capillo said, two years ago he bought some unroasted coffee, imported from Mexico, and as an experiment planted it in his back yard in the spring. By September, he said, the plants had yielded 20 pounds of beans. "They looked like string bean vines," he said. "I picked the beans, shelled them, and had them roasted. Got seven pounds of the best coffee I ever tasted." |