Last week on Thursday we got to go to Margarita's (another one of our directors) coffee finca to take a tour and see the whole coffee process...

Here's a few pics of the process... i don't know if anyone actually finds it interesting, but here they are nonetheless....


The coffee trees/bushes. Other taller kinds of trees are planted around them to give them shade and protect them from frost...
















These are the beans before they are stripped from their shell.. they go from green to yellow to red. The red ones are the good ones. The green ones, if picked, are still dried and sold, mostly to the Japanese aparently, for blended coffees.






The women sorting the beans - they only get paid for the red beans they pick and they get paid by the pounds (I don't remember how much but it wasn't much - like Q35, which is about $7 Canadian dollars, for a 100 pound bag.. i think)











Carrying the 100 pound bag over to where the beans get peeled/stripped and then dried