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Old May 10, 2019, 4:34 am
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DanielW
 
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And looking south from San Miguel Escobar to the coffee plantations on the slopes of Volcán de Agua.


After meeting up with our guide and local farmer, Carlos, we walked up towards the coffee plantations.


This coffee plantation was a co-operative and shared amongst 28 farmers.


Carlos among some of the Arabica coffee plants. In my very basic Spanish I asked him how old they were and he said they were older than him!


A handful of the dark red coffee cherries.


Carlos explaining how the seedlings are cultivated, selected and eventually planted to become coffee plants.


We then wandered through the coffee bushes back to the family home in town. Carlos showing how the fruit pulp is removed from coffee cherries.


A photo on the wall with Carlos and his family with an earlier version of the de-pulping machine that was pedal-powered.


Beans covered in parchment on the right and the green beans with it removed on the left.


Coffee beans drying in the sun on the roof.


Carlos's wife showing how the beans are traditionally roasted on a pan over a wooden fire.

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