Musings from a bird watcher: Being someone who loves birds, I enjoy the starkness of the winter months with forays to the sea to search for birds down from the…
RichNovember 29, 2016
The establishment of the Yoro Biological Corridor Initiative by the government of Honduras was officially announced by Ángel Matute, director of the National Institute for Forest Conservation Protected Areas and…
RichOctober 18, 2015
It is now peak harvest season for Cafe Solar, which means that everyone in Honduras is working flat out. The 250 or so farm families high in the Yoro mountains…
RichJune 29, 2015
It’s harvest time for Cafe Solar. All over those 250 or so coffee farms in the Yoro mountains, family members are busy dawn to dusk. They are picking coffee cherries,…
RichJune 29, 2015
Every day, in harvest season, the co-op receives more “wet beans” — coffee beans now freed from the pulp and skin that enclosed them in the coffee cherry, but still…
RichJune 29, 2015
Each day, more beans arrive at the co-op for processing. Just 24 hours prior to arriving they were still inside ripe coffee cherries hanging on the tree, and by now…
RichJune 29, 2015
The bean intake process begins long before the harvest,” explains Rich Trubey, program developer and co-founder of the Massachusetts-based Mesoamerican Development Institute. MDI works with Co-operativa COMISUYL on cultivation techniques…
RichJune 29, 2015
You could say that coffee farmers have always used “solar power” to dry their beans — and you’d be right. After picking and depulping the cherries, farmers would traditionally spread…
RichJune 29, 2015
Most of the steps in the Cafe Solar coffee harvest & processing take place in rapid succession; ripe coffee cherries are picked daily, de-pulped the same day, taken to Cooperativa…
RichJune 29, 2015
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