Okay, this is kind of cool; a Costa Rican farmer is showing what it takes to successfully grow coffee plants. He shows the beans at all stages of the process, from plant-lings to beans to so on and so forth. The craziest part is, their way of collecting the beans is so rudimentary! The picking is done by hand and the “cherries” are put into rubber or woven baskets, acres and acres of land to cover and scourge for the fruit of the coffee plants. It takes so much time to remove the skin of the beans, dry them, put them in the correct heat to finally be bagged for sale. The temperatures have to be very precise, exactly in the range of particular degrees or else the carefully selected beans will go bad and spoil. That’s a lot of pressure on farmers, think about how much of their crop could be ruined by a mere unseasonal temperature drop… a delicate process indeed.
October 25, 2009
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November 8, 2009 at 5:04 pm
This post is so interesting to compare with the one you posted next. It’s unfortunate how the people who put in the manual labor of actually growing the coffee plants are placed at the bottom of the totem pole, with the Starbucks executives and advertisers placed at the top. Maybe this is because people believe the executives and businessmen have so much more at stake with the company? But if the Costa Rican farmers lost their jobs, they would have nothing left.