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As Green as It GetsCoffee cooperative
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As Green as It Gets Web-page WWW.asgreenasitgets.org
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Visiting a coffee plantation with the grower
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Newly planted coffee trees need shade from nurse trees
Coffee tree
Nurse tree
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The common nurse tree in Guatemala was Silky oak (Grevillea). It is fast growing and can eventually be used for firewood.
Nurse trees
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Coffee flowers Coffee fruits
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Coffee seedlings are grown in plastic bags in shaded nurseries
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The Grevillea trees are grown in a similar way
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Back from the field to learn how coffee is processed and roasted.
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But first a Geology lesson
from Anna
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The harvested coffee needs to have the fleshy fruit covering removed.
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This grower employs a bicycle-like pedal powered fruit removal machine.
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Pedal powered machines are useful for all sorts of applications like this pedal powered blender.
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There is an NGO in Guatamala for making useful pedal powered machines. Our guide at IMAP worked for Maya Pedal before moving to IMAP.
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Once the coffee seeds are separated from the fruits they are roasted.
Katie
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We were treated to a home-style roasting in a pan on the
wood fired stove.
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Anna giving roasting a try.
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Next was Sarah, turning coffee beans with one hand and taking notes
with the other.
The beans are getting darker as they toast.
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Finally, the coffee beans are dark enough to begin the
grinding process.
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This is old school grinding using a grindstone.
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The mother of the house showed us the proper
technique.
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Anna using the grindstone
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Mother only seems to be grinding faster than Sarah?