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2019 Recap

1/11/2020

Thank you!
We want to thank everyone who supported us through the 2019 year and followed our progress.

Here is a list of a few of our 2019 accomplishments:

Built a new Roasting House
Built a new Storage Warehouse for the coffee
New digital live-feed camera system (and the 2 major repairs to it)
Surviving an Achilles Tendon surgery
A bigger Generator (for all those power outages)
Building a rainwater catchment system (for all the times the water is out - works during at least half of the year!)
Covered walkway so that we can process coffee in the rain
Fixing the road and ditches for another year (although, sadly it is time to do that again)
Getting to be a part of people's memories....

It has been quite the year! Many challenges, but also many solutions. We are excited to see where 2020 takes us.

2020 - Coffee Tree Update
We expect to have a few challenges this year with the coffee trees. They have decided to start blooming 4 months early. Does this mean we will have 2 harvests this year? The thought is that it does mean that, which means we need to come up with a way to dry the coffee during the wettest part of the year.

This farm has never had 2 harvests, nor have the farms around us....so this is all new territory and we hope that we will be prepared for whatever happens.

Doug

1/11/2020 10:27:49 am

So, what does this early bloom tell you? Does this have to do with climate change? If so, in what way - rainfall? It's real odd sounding - 4 months early.

Andi

1/11/2020 12:24:08 pm

It is about the weather. The lack of rain when we were expecting it made the trees think it was summer, but then enough rain came when it should have been our real summer and the trees were tricked into thinking summer was over.

Now that it is really summer, we expect them to bloom again in April and May when the rains start to come back again.

It will be a very different year for us. :)

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