A very interesting and touching Globo Rural edition this morning about Brazilians that were forced out of Paraguay with threats and acts of violence by rural gangs associated with the Landless Workers Movement in Paraguay. They have returned to Brazil, and landless and penniless they have formed a tenement settlement along the highway [...]
So after two days at the Curso Internacional de Degustação e Classificação de Café, I must say that my expectations have been exceeded. Granted, my expectations were fairly low, not because of anything I had heard or any negative perceptions about the ACS, but simply because spending one month classifying commercial coffee and learning to [...]
Sim – eh cocada boa. It’s good to be back in Brazil, especially given the humidity in Austin. I was dying of hunger on the bus to Santos when the bus stopped to pick up someone and I heard “cocada 2 reais.” So much better than the C-Store offerings on trips to Houston and [...]
Water first…
The farm workers, 100% Mayas, live on the finca in simple houses. Last night when we were coming home we met one of the locals (here with her nephew) dressed in typical Mayan garb and carrying water on her head. It’s amazing to see, and even the young girls can carry the water like [...]
Finca Santa Felisa will be my home in Guatemala for a month. It is an organic and shade-grown coffee farm with an intense focus on social initiatives and developing the community around it.
Here is a shot of the coffee at Finca Santa Felisa. A few things to note about the coffee is that it is [...]
