Coffee harvest

As I have mentioned before we are getting into the coffee business. For the full coffee story click here.
This month we have started harvesting. It certainly is a different experience to grow things on a commercial level as apposed to growing for our own use.
Miss a harvest for the table because of weather or not paying attention, it's not such a biggie. But growing something to sell, you better pay attention.
We have taken our coffee plants to this point.

 

Then a few months ago they were producing these.

 

Then 2 weeks ago the coffee cherries looked like this and the harvest began.
The pulp has been removed from the coffee cherries and the resulting beans are being dried in the sun. The harvest was up in the mountains, but for the last few weeks there has been a lack of sun to dry the beans.

 

So last week we hauled the beans down to Chiangmai where there was a bit of sun and laid them on tarps in an empty field.

The sun has been shining since and today the beans were pronounced dry and were bagged ready for the next step.

 

 

At this point we can sell the dried beans either with or without the parchment that is still on them , or remove the parchment and start roasting the beans.

I think we'll be doing a combination of these things. We'll see how it all works out.

 

 

The harvest will continue over the next few months. Lots of work ahead of us.