Niele da Kine
Loving the herd life
Coffee is a lot of work, around here only the red berries are harvested by hand multiple times for each tree. If you get enough of it, it can be sold to a processor as 'coffee berry' otherwise it has to be pulped, soaked, cleaned, dried, then it's at the 'paper' stage. Then it gets the paper taken off and then finally roasted. I'm gonna try taking some dried berries off the tree and then just roast and grind them and see what it tastes like if the whole berry is used. It would be a LOT less work. Chocolate is even more work than coffee. Tea is easy, though. Get the leaves, crunch them, let them wilt then roast and toast and brew. That's for black tea, though, green tea is easier. Starts with the same leaves, too.
This is the island of Hawaii, it's a great place for a back yard farm since there's so many things to choose from. A small farmer of high end products works here a lot better than the commercial sized farms with thousands of acres and their 'economy of scale'. Pop on over and start a farm! We could use more of them around here.
This is the island of Hawaii, it's a great place for a back yard farm since there's so many things to choose from. A small farmer of high end products works here a lot better than the commercial sized farms with thousands of acres and their 'economy of scale'. Pop on over and start a farm! We could use more of them around here.