Coffee
While staying at Sipi Falls we made a visit to a small Women’s Coffee Cooperative nearby. We saw the process from the initial seedlings to the final roasting. (We forgot to take photos of all the steps!) It takes about three years for a coffee seedling to grow and produce coffee. Here on the mountain the seedlings are often intercropped with banana plants. After picking the coffee berries, the outer shell is removed and a moist bean is revealed. These beans are then laid out to dry. They are pounded to remove another shell and then roasted in a pot over an open fire.
As we watched the roasting the community children enjoyed looking at these “wazungu” (us) and seeing the photos that we took of them.
