Tag: hard day’s work

  • Fair Trade, Trace-ability & Lasers!

    When I meet up with the group again, they’re standing in one of the massive warehouses. Giant 200+ pound bags bulging with dry coffee (not yet roasted) stacked on pallets.  A series of colorful skyscrapers, white, red, tan and red, we wander the maze-like pathways…

  • The Sound of a Single Coffee Bean

    The afternoon flits by, as we walk slowly through the oven-like intense heat of Nicaragua-heading-into-dry-season. I let the others wander ahead, through fields of drying coffee, and linger behind. Silent workers shuffle on top of the coffee, through the blasts of dry heat, baggy clothes…