Examples of the rarest variety in the town, the Kentucky coffee tree, are planted on Princeton Boulevard, according to town forestry division foreman David DiNatale.

Belgian food-tech startup Koppie has developed a patent-pending technology that creates a sustainable coffee bean alternative using locally sourced pulses.

Kentucky basketball once again split games, going 1-1 last week. Here's where Mark Pope's team stands in the March Madness bracketology projections.

Kentucky coffee tree is dioecious, which means it has either only male or female flowers. Both male and female flowers are small and white, but female flowers develop into large, hard seedpods.

Many businesses in southern Kentucky have been closed for weeks after May's deadly tornado destroyed their workplaces, including one Baxter's Coffee location in Somerset.

Starting Nov. 26 Kentucky Coffee Tree: $8 Clean seed only, no pods. Collected seeds can be brought to the MDC’s Southeast Regional Office and the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center.

The seeds are collected from an oriental plane tree, destroyed by the bombing, and a ginkgo tree.

In coffee agroforests that use a diversity of native tree species for shade, seeds that are normally cleared by farmers can be collected instead, new research proposes.

“GMA” stops by A Cup of Common Wealth, a local coffee shop in Lexington, Kentucky, to connect with viewers and find out “what fills your cup?” ...

At that point, however, the coffee tree didn’t totally fade away from public recognition. It officially became the “Kentucky Heritage Tree.” Go figure.