Thursday, February 10, 2011

Coffee

    Ever wonder where your coffee comes from? I found out! These are some pictures of the Azotea coffee plantation near Antigua.
The short, dark green bushes are coffee trees!
Coffee cherries are picked by hand (the beans are inside).


The wheat colored stuff through those doors?

Coffee drying in the sun!

Coffee Beans
The roasting building

The finished product is bagged and exported and maybe even enjoyed by you!

The annual yield of one coffee tree equals 40 cups of coffee! 
How many coffee trees are planted here just for you?
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7 comments:

  1. DaveFebruary 11, 2011 at 4:19 AM

    Uh... a LOT! Blogger has no "like" function... but if it did I would LIKE this very much.

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  2. LeahFebruary 11, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    lol. good. i like this post as well:)

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  3. VanessaFebruary 11, 2011 at 11:25 PM

    So... how do you feel about that, Leah? ;)

    Beautiumus photos, by the way. You capture Guatemala quite accurately.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    wow i like this post :) i LOVE coffee so it's soooo great to see how they make it ha! you should check my blog out girl!

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  5. LeahFebruary 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    Thank you Vanessa! That means a lot! And you know how I feel about that ;)

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  6. TessFebruary 18, 2011 at 5:25 PM

    only 40 cups of coffee? That's like a weeks worth for me. j.k. wow, honestly wonder how many trees and workers they need to produce the amount of coffee that this world consumes. thanks for this post, Leah.

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  7. LeahFebruary 19, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    i like you tess!

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