Finca Santa Rita -planting a coffee tree

Once done at Mil Variedades we toured the slightly larger Finca Santa Rita. If I remember correctly it is about a quarter the size of El Arbol…

It was exciting to see familiar names of Kaffeemacher coffee flavors: Los Chenes, Doña Marguerita… All of them are areas where coffee trees are planted and the names go back to prior people present on the farm - usually grandparents.

We made it through more coffee species guesstimating before arriving at the spot where we would each plant a new coffee plant.

Tim and Adan made sure to measure out the distances with the “A tool” and let us know where to dig. Spade at hand we cleared the soil coverage and dug the holes as deep as they needed to be.

Of course there was also time for coffee and cuddling with the 4 week old puppy. 🥰🐶

All in all, a day can’t get any better than that! 🫶🏽

We headed back for lunch and theory similar to yesterday. Learning about Diseases and fertilization.

Just as jet lag was hitting the hardest the dog 🐶 Tony Mercelo created a diversion by bringing me a banana 🍌 I needed to peel for him to eat 😂🤣😍

Tomorrow we start at 6am together with the pickers!!!
And what we pick we get to process as well 😍😇

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