Coffee beans started turning from green...
...to red in November...
...causing another round of harvesting.
Since what gets picked is color coded, the kids and I got to be involved.
The goods get put into large costal bags which the men haul...
...to the cooperative to be weighed.
They often carry 100-200 pounds worth of product for kilometers over steep, muddy, treacherous terrain...
...and then up the cooperative hill....
...to be de-pulped...
...washed...
...and sorted by quality.
The high quality stuff gets sold and exported, the low quality stays in the community to be toasted and consumed in heavily sweetened mugs at every meal.
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