~Coffee Harvesting in Colombia~

Above is a picture of the berries that the farmers pick individually by hand!

First, the farmers pick the coffee berries by hand! Then the farmers put the berries in sacks on their backs or on animals back such as donkeys. The coffee berries are then depulped. The pulp is then used as compost! The beans are then put in a big fermentation tank for 24 hours to separate the unwanted matter from the beans. This is what sets Colombian mild coffee apart from other mild coffee's! After the beans have been properly fermented they are washed with water to get rid of the damaged coffee beans and other unwanted matter. Finally the beans are dried in pure sunlight during the day and covered at night or when raining. Now the beans are ready to be bagged and shipped off to coffee companies!

-Maddy