Tag: hard day’s work
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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…
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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…