Trips to Origins
Recently I have been to visit some plantations to witness the amazing spectacle of coffee being grown and harvested.
January 2008 Costa Rica
The Farm is set in high altitude 2km from San Isidro de Alajuela, we met with Diego Zamora one of the farm owners,
the plantation has been familly owned for nearly an 100 years.
We arrived early January 2008, it was the last week of harvesting, as you can see in the film and pictures the pickers remove not only the red cherries, but also the yellow and green to clear the bush. This will prevent the trees from diseases. The beans will be sorted later on during the processing, only the red cherries are exported. The farm produces an outstanding coffee with a laser sharp acidity still well balanced with notes of lemons, grapefruit and milk chocolate.
Click to access Quicktime movie
January 2009 India
Bibi plantations farm is an incredible plantation where Arabica, Robusta and Pepper corns are grown, all of an exceptional quality!
We had the chance to spend a week on the plantation and really enjoyed it, Faiz Moosakutty farm owner is a great host aswell as a very passionate and dedicated man.
The farm is situated not far from Santicoppa in karnataka, south west India, a very lush plantation with beautiful shading trees, a great pleasure to walk through.
We met and spent some time with the pickers, the farm employs around 100 pickers and 50 of whom are leaving on the farm this creates a really nice atmosphere. After the picking sorting and processing the pickers where going home and carried on their daily task. Grinding the wheat for making flour, collecting wood to light the fire, washing their clothes on the stone by the river then the children were coming back from school.
This was just the daily life of indian families living and working on Bibi plantations farm, really peacefull and beautiful. The farm provides free electricity, free housing and free medical assistance aswell as interest free loans to help pay the children’s school fees.
Thank you to the team of Mercanta who gave us the contacts, this was again an amazing trip with great people to share some time with.
Prints of all sizes are available please email milo@timeinmotion.co.uk for further information.