I just wanted to post a little bit about what I did today! In the morning, I helped serve/cook breakfast to the Bed and Breakfast guests. After that, we loaded about 7 bags of fertilizer (AKA: ground up bird parts made into pellets) into the gator and went through half the coffee farm throwing fertilizer onto the base of each tree. Farmer Hans drove while Kristen and I sat in the back and threw the fertilizer out each side. It was a pretty smelly job. I still smell quite a bit which is why I'm getting the hot water ready for the shower!
After fertilizing and lunch, Hans showed us how to roast coffee and package it correctly. This was actually very interesting and I think I'm going to be doing a little of this by myself in the near future. One fun fact I learned was that "dark roast" is the least caffeinated coffee you can get. Also you taste more of the flavor from the roast and less of the actual coffee's original flavor. That is because the longer you roast the coffee, the more caffeine and flavor is roasted out of it!
This probably sounds a little boring but I thought it was interesting that when coffee is roasted, it loses 20% of its weight (which is mostly moisture) but the beans double in size!
Well that's about it for today! Here are a few pictures :)
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