The first coffee is here!
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| UMF employees Martir Alvarado and Charlie Heins work on final preparations at the beneficio |
We are excited to say that Pastor Bernardo Ponce from Las Peñas
brought the first coffee down from his field today, and we started processing
it at the beneficio!
It was a busy day as we ran tests on the water system,
mounted and calibrated the depulping machine, and made sure that everything was
in tip-top shape for the first coffee to arrive; we finished the last tweaks
just 30 minutes before Pastor Bernardo pulled up in a pickup truck with 2,000
lb of coffee cherries.
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| Pastor Bernardo Ponce shows off the coffee he just brought down from his field--the first ever to be processed at the beneficio |
After months and months of planning, building, and
preparing, it was a truly special moment to see the joy on Pastor Bernardo’s
face as he helped unload his coffee and the pride with which he showed us his
coffee. And what a coffee it is! It qualified for a picking bonus, meaning it
was an exceptionally well prepared coffee.
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| Depulping ran late into the night, but the coffee looks great as it enters the fermentation tank |
We finished unloading and weighing his coffee just before
nightfall, and continued depulping well into the darkness. After depulping
finished, we filled the fermenting tank with water. The coffee will ferment
here for the next day before moving onto the next step of processing—washing,
soaking, and sorting in the recently finished correteo.
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| Coffee pulp, normally a damaging waste of processing, is ready to be moved to the vermiculture where it will be made into organic fertilizer |
In the morning, we will load the leftover pulp (or coffee
fruit) into the vermiculture where we will start the process of turning it into
the first organic fertilizer produced at the beneficio.
There is plenty of work to do from here—more solar dryers to
be built, adjustments to be made to the water system, and more coffees to
process. After we have a few hours to recover from the day’s work, we will be
back to check on the progress of Pastor Bernardo’s coffee before sunrise
tomorrow. Check back soon to follow the two week progression as we continue
processing this coffee and prepare for more!
Thank you to everybody that has supported us, especially the
good people of Calvary CRC in Holland, MI, as we worked with the farmers of La Unión to turn the dream of a
high-quality processing center into a reality.
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