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Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Baya or berry. That’s right coffee berries is the proper term because, well, coffee are berries, not legumes. So, don’t say coffee beans. Here are the green coffee berries that will be ready for harvesting starting on October. Once these berries turn red, they look more like cherries. … Read more
It’s almost time to harvest one of the best coffees in the world. Make sure you make room in your kitchen.
Another crop that I have found on my walks through the hills on the skirt of Volcán de Agua is coffee. These coffee berries are grown on public municipal land about 30 minutes away from the village of San Pedro Las Huertas on the skirt of Hunajpú volcano, also known as Agua. According to Anacafé, … Read more
Here’s another photograph of the harvesting of coffee berries in Antigua Guatemala for the #RealGuatemala series. The freshly cut coffee berries being pulled by the tractor to the beneficio so they can undergo the next step in the process of producing one of the best coffees in the world. I have a few questions for … Read more
These are the hands the rock the coffee berries off the branches swiftly, almost effortlessly it seemed. There’s something about these hands that moves me . What kind of stories are behind these hands? What life have they lived?
In Spanish we use the word café to mean coffee and brown. Coffee berries, however, begin their color palette lifecycle as green fruit which then turns yellow and finally red when ripe. The color shifts do not stop there, from there it turns yellowish again as it is being dried, then light green and finally … Read more