While Alex was here in Guatemala, we spent 3 days in Antigua, Guatemala. One of those afternoons we spent at the Filadelfia Coffee Plantation just outside of town. In this blog, I will share with you the process of coffee growing, picking, drying, and processing right down the the final product: that perfect cup of coffee! Again, my internet connection won't allow me to upload pictures to the blog, but you can follow along with photos of the whole coffee making process by going to: http://www1.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=3290559016/a=3029341/ The Filadelfia Finca (named that way because in Greek Philadelphia (or however they would spell it - it's all Greek to me!) means place of brotherly love, not because of the city in the USA) picked us up in Antigua in one of their fancy if bouncy coffee plantation trucks.
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