At the miller, first the coffee is put into a separator, sorting the beans by mass, routing them through three different chutes. Leftover chaff and other waste is shot out one side. On the other side are a huge pile of clean coffee and a pile of broken seeds and other waste material. The coffee is then put through screens that sort it further, by size and material content. All the fluff is shoveled out and away.
Women sit at long tables, cleaning coffee.
In the middle of the tables is a big pile to be sorted. Women place smaller piles in front of them and work through them bean by bean, pulling aside the whole beans that were too small to be separated out before this point, the broken beans, the waste. The women talk while they work. Kids run around, and some kids sit at the tables and clean coffee. The women sew up the handmade and embroidered bags of Capulin coffee.