Why Juan Valdez gets paid so much

He's the most famous coffee picker in the world (I know cuz I saw it on TV), and Man, coffee picking is time consuming work! So much pickin for just a few precious beans! Sheesh-now I gotta squeeze the beans out, dunk them in water overnight, wash the slime off tomorrow, dry them, then roast (toast) them while turning to prevent charring, then grind. Planted the seed 6 years ago. tree is 7' high now......

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Nunca! (never??) No es natural!!

 

OK, guys, thats enough. Coffee is for morning, and beer for night.

 

Wow, falcon, amazing pictures. What a place. Yes, best beans are in mountains, hard to get to, hard to harvest, and forget about mass assembly line mentality here. I joked about Juan Valdez, but thats still how many of the best suppliers pick their crop. Paths that wind/turn around precarious ridges/cliffs, to get to the trees, etc. Only donkeys can access some of them.

Oh- its cool to "strip" so many beans at once, like you said, but you will get beans that are not at optimum ripeness (as you can see by the varied colors of beans in your basket). Only red ones must be picked. Like Juan Valdez.

 

Oh- Florida is actually too COLD for coffee. Thats why is so unusual to get a harvest where I live. Lots of care/guarding from our "cold" Florida winter nights. Anybody can grow coffee in S America.......

 

Juan V.

 

Thanks, Falc, for the other pictures. Wow, what a crop down there. Do they have poisonous snakes lurking in those jungles that you know of? I imagine one has to be very careful where one steps.

 

Yes, it is acceptable, I understand, to pick all at once and to have "green" mixed in, iF you wish to be quick/easy. Then, though, no way to avoid having less ripe beans in the mix, thats all there is to it. In Brazil, with the huge coffee farms, they pick with machines, and pick everything, ripe/green/some brown/dead beans, etc. You get what you pay for. Masss production in Brazil.

Of course, they try to time it to maximize the ripe ones in the pick.