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After these coffee cherries are picked, and cleaned, they are spread
out across a canvas and dried naturally under the sun.
The coffee tree produces small, white, highly fragrant flowers just a few days before the coffee cherries begin to form. The outer layer displays the level of ripeness-
turning from light green, to yellow, to bright red. The skin of these cherries
is thick and bitter, but the fruit beneath the skin is sweet.
The cultivating process takes about 9 months from the time the flowers appear, to when the berries are ripe and ready for harvesting. The bright red coffee cherries, almost fully mature, encompass two halves of a seed. These are raw, green coffee beans.
We traveled to our farms to gain a more thorough understanding of the coffee process.
The pictures below are images we captured from the Cerrado Region
in Brazil, the location where our beans are grown. Enjoy!
From Flowers...
To Yellow...
After the raw, green beans are cleaned, dried and sorted,
they are stored in 60kg burlap bags and ready for
exporting to our Blythewood, SC roaster facility.
Highly skilled experts sort and grade our beans.
Harvesting the farms in the Cerrado requires quality maintenance, as the savannah soil is dry. The coffee plants are kept well watered with irrigation.
To Green Cherries...
As you can see, coffee in the Cerrado Region is grown in spaced rows. These rows span on for miles of cultivated land.
To Red...
