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It shouldn’t surprise long-time Green Mountain Café readers to hear that we love it when Green Mountain Coffee fans send fun pictures and stories to share with us.  Whether it’s an unconventional coffee cake, a mall photo shoot, or a frog making itself at home in our Green Mountain coffee cups, few things makes us (and, hopefully, you) smile more than to see how these things come about.

…and, yes, you read that last item correctly: A cute little frog in a coffee cup planter.

Allow me to introduce Alex, Green Mountain Coffee fan and blooming organic gardener, who snapped a shot of this little fellow in a coffee-cup planter one day. Here is Alex’s froggy story:

I have a small porch garden outside of my apartment and I recently began growing tomatoes, herbs, and a few other plants here and there. I was starting some cuttings and seedlings on the porch right around Earth Day trying to get my fiancé involved with our organic garden. Like usual, I stopped on my way home from work to get some of your coffee and thought to myself, “What a good idea it would be to recycle coffee cups and reuse them as planters”. The frog seems to love the cool moist soil during the hot summer days down here in Florida. After seeing this frog in the cup, I decided to snap a picture with my phone just because I thought it was neat. Then I got to thinking about what Green Mountain Coffee does to support sustainability and eco-friendly living. So, I checked out the website and thought that my picture might be a good fit in representing those same ideas. The frog comes back every couple of days and hunts the bugs at night. A great addition, to say the least.

Thanks to Alex for sending us this great picture!  Here’s hoping your garden will be buzzing with friendly creatures to help your vegetables grow!

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