Organic coffee farmers of Mayan descent gather to show large compost pile. Costa Rica 1996 Terrazu Paul and John Katzeff, founders of Thanksgiving Coffee visiting one of the great coffee growing regions of Mexico. Guatemala 1993 Depulping coffee cherries, separating the pulp from the seeds. Guatemala 1993 Country road scene in Matagalpa coffee growing region. Ripe cherries ready to be harvested.
Cherries form from flowers at leaf nodes.
The variety of tree determines the distance between nodes. This is a classic Bourbon variety configuration. One ripe cherry among green unripe ones. This famous truck stop on Hwy 101, The Wheel Cafe, closed after 70 years in 1998 when an interstate bypass was opened.