Working hard in the coffee shop
December 14, 2023 in Peru ⋅ 🌧 20 °CVilla Rica is home to some very good coffee, so we had to combine the necessary with the fun here.
Villa Rica is home to some very good coffee, so we had to combine the necessary with the fun here.
We left from Iscosazín at 5 am,which was hard for me. But we could drive together with Marco from DRIS, who is responsible for the cacao production part of the activities. Yolanda, who is responsibleRead more
Yolanda put in some extra efford .nd gave us some eshpe fruits to try fresh! They only stay good for a couple of days so we had to eat them quickly
Teresa showed us her house, where decades ago her husband built it with the wood she used for reforestation. She claims it's better quality than the wood recommended to her by others, as she showsRead more
Due to seeing a lot of dead wood in the previous restaureca plot, DRIS used the last day to show us a reforestation done on pasture land. Theresa planted a lot of different trees in a plot where thereRead more
Sometimes, for example for making their own cacao, DRIS buys the whole fruit pod from the farmers and does the fermentation and drying process themselves.
At the office of ECA Yanesha and SERNANP,Read more
Sra Teresa and her organic cacao farm. There were a lot of diseases in this plot. 5years ago they started the production. She wanted to stop with cacao until the help of DRIS
Brae 99 y 15 are the twoRead more
The cacao pods are harvested and fermented and dried at the farmer's houses. Once dry, they are brought to one of the collection centers. Yolanda from DRIS picks up the collected cacao beans and paysRead more
Fertilizer and ground cover with nitrogen fixing species. There is cacao because there is a lot of maintenance that was done.
1,5 ha
3x per year maintenance is needed at this point. The trees are 5Read more
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Looks very good 😋😋 [Jeanine]