It began with a love for coffee. And continues with a passion for going beyond—beyond java, beyond waste, beyond expectations—by recycling coffee byproducts into exceptional products that stand on their own. Crafted from smart ideas and careful research, JavaCycle products revolutionize what coffee waste can do.

WHAT WE DO - NEXT GENERATION ORGANIC FERTILZERS

An Inspired Idea...

Coffee chaff and lots of it - that’s where it started. At the end of a day of roasting - James was looking at barrels of coffee chaff - and thought - that’s a lot of coffee chaff - he asked his coffee roasting friends - what’s the deal with coffee chaff? Pretty uniform response - pain in the…, goes on fire real easily, light, fluffy and blows around all over the place. Hmm, he thought - there must be more to it - so curiosity got the best of him and off for lab testing it went - turns out is has some solid potential as a fertilizer - not enough by itself - but add in some other organic ingredients and you just might have something.

Then what happened…

After lots of R&D with several labs, the University of Minnesota, master gardeners, organic farmers, home gardeners, student gardeners - he got it - a line of organic garden fertilizers that not only work great but smell great too. All that hard work paid off - with a solid base product - building on them was the next step.

Identity Crisis - we are going to need a lot more chaff….

With our line of garden fertilizers in place we expanded our efforts to get more chaff. We started working with more and more coffee roasters - building custom equipment to gather up lots and lots of coffee chaff - just wasn’t going to be enough. So we took off the gloves and partnered with some of the biggest names in the business - now we are talking - full semi loads of coffee chaff - knowing we could get lots really gave us some room to stretch. Still warms my heart every time we get in another load…

Lawn & Turfs Fertilizers?

Yep - the garden fertilizers where just a start - next up was a line of professional grade lawn and turf fertilizers - worked with some super smart people in the business - with a great R&D team behind us - we built a handful of base line fertilizers as a starting point and sent them off for real world testing - the grounds crew at several universities and golf courses - after about 4 months - we got the thumbs up - worked as good or better as what they are currently using - plus it smells great - all this at a lower price then the competition. Now that we have these baseline fertilizers in place - time to get them out to a larger market and keep building on them.

Looking ahead...

Additional JavaCycle fertilizer products are in the works, along with some non-fertilizer applications using coffee chaff. Ingenuity and smart partnerships ensure that JavaCycle offerings aren't just wishful thinking, but exceptional products that happen to have a creative origin. You can use them because you support sustainable resources or because you love coffee. But most of all, use them because they work.