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Erik Johnson of Thinkwell.coffee roasts a batch of coffee beans at his home in Waverly.Â
WAVERLY, Iowa â Move over craft beer. Thereâs a new beverage brewing on the local scene.
Craft coffee is energizing java enthusiasts â like Erik Johnson of Waverly â to create their own coffee blends at home using a delicate roasting process.
âYou can totally screw up a great coffee by poorly roasting it, and you can take a mediocre coffee and bring it to its highest heights,â Johnson said.
Over the last decade Johnson has grown and matured his roasting techniques. The craftsmanship behind each cup of the centuries-old beverage considers the flavor and origin of each bean.
The Baltimore Greenways Trail Network is a relatively new idea. Other projects working their way through Maryland’s transportation pipeline, including the Purple Line, the cancelled Baltimore Red Line, the Corridor Cities Transitway, and the Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Project, each date back decades. But the Baltimore Greenway, a proposed 35-mile network of urban trails ringing almost the entirety of Baltimore City, only dates back four or five years Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s earliest planning meetings for the project launched toward the end of 2015. But despite its newness, the trail network, spearheaded by a coalition with more than 40 stakeholder members, has a key advantage: it’s already almost done.
healthy stuff they won t be so fat. reporter: freishtat also wants to see more community guardens in the city and is working with local libraries where residents can pick up their groceries after ordering them online. we can change the landscape for food. reporter: she is changing it in a way that just happens to fall in line with initiatives the white house has been pushing. she says baltimore can be an example. let s say you and i are here from now a year from now. yes. reporter: and we re walking through the waverly farmers market. how would you like it to look different? i would like to see everyone who wants to eat fruits and vegetables to be able to come here and to be able to buy the produce in the amount that they want and need to satisfy their food security for households. reporter: bringing things like ebt machines into farmers markets is a first step. baltimore health officials say what may be more challenging in the long term is to change people s eating habit