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November 11th 2008
Published: December 14th 2008
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Went on a tour of an Organic Coffee Co-Op. Hugo gave us the grand tour. We saw coffee from seedlings to mature plants, had crop rotation and harvesting explained to us, got to sample various coffees and saw the entire process for turning beans into my reason for getting out of bed in the morning.


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just picked cofee berries
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baby coffee plants
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mature coffee plant
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Hugo - our host
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Coffee berries
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Sugarcane - crop rotation
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Banana plants - also a plant used in crop rotation
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coffee beans squeezed out of coffee berry. Coated in a sweet jellylike goo
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soaking the skins off the berries


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