Dipilto Viejo

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Traveler Nicaragua/Panama
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- Jan 9, 2024, 8:45am
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 1,271 m
- Nicaragua Departamento de Nueva Segovia Dipilto Viejo 13.766802, -86.5076913°46’0” N 86°30’28” W
Day 5
Mil Variedades/Finca Esperanza
January 9 in Nicaragua ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
After an amazing porridge breakfast I realized I got super lucky: I had left my hiking shoes in the one spot of the finca where the roof leaks. AND we had a little bit of rain last night. What are the chances of that?!?!? Pretty similar to winning the lottery, so remind me to play next chance I get.
No worries: My trusted Timberlands did not hesitate when called📞 for duty. 🫡 And because I was feeling really fortunate, I made sure to switch the moist socks out as well.

The first stop today was the small Mil Variedad Finca. It’s at 1500müm (sea level) and you could immediately tell it was cooler up there than the Fincas we were used to.
After picking the best mandarines 🍊 and eating them straight off the tree we dodged a nest of killer wasps to continue to identify different coffee species.

Honestly I was just blown away by the view. I think Tim is a bit frustrated with me - at this point I feel like I really can’t tell them apart… 🌳🌲😅😆

Ok, the bigger ones are “Mara” (save the ending so it could be either Marogogype or Maracaturra) and I feel like the most common one is Paraeinema. 😂🤣

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- Jan 9, 2024, 11:05am
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 1,090 m
- Nicaragua Departamento de Nueva Segovia Dipilto Viejo 13.753162, -86.51012413°45’11” N 86°30’36” W
Day 5
Finca Santa Rita -planting a coffee tree
January 9 in Nicaragua ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
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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- Jan 11, 2024, 5:23pm
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 1,280 m
- Nicaragua Departamento de Nueva Segovia Dipilto Viejo 13.766872, -86.50775113°46’1” N 86°30’28” W
Day 7
Processing coffee part 2
January 11 in Nicaragua ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
After our day out and about it was time to continue processing our coffee lot. Since it was a small amount, we hand washed it in a bucket instead of the big washing line.
Then we brought it to the drying house where we would pack it the next morning to go to the dry mill.Read more
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