We will be making a short trip home on the 22nd of December. We are hoping to sell 150 pounds of coffee to help our friends, Michael and Adele, in Guatemala. All of the Crossroads Coffee will be roasted fresh and bagged by yours truly the day before we leave. (It’s [...]
Hava and I picked some ripe cherries off the Coffea Arabica var. Caturra tree that lives on the same finca we do.
[a little coffee note found on www.coffeeresearch.com]
The coffee plant is a woody perennial evergreen dicotyledon that belongs to the Rubiaceae family. It has a main vertical trunk (orthotropic) and primary, [...]
Roasting samples with Jose using the tiny sample roaster
Wahoo…The harvest brings a flurry of activity in the country. People from all over the world come to Guatemala looking for coffees to import. People growing coffee are looking for buyers. Indigenous people follow the harvest from sea level to high altitudes working [...]
The dark green shrub-like plants at the bottom are coffee plants on Finca Vega.
If you go into a $tarbucks or any other specialty coffee store they usually have extra special coffees that have seals or stickers on them: “USDA certified Organic,” “Fair Trade certified by TransFair”, or “Bird Friendly certified by the Smithsonian [...]
November first is an important day here in Guatemala. It is el dia del muerto, or the day of the dead. Most villages, particularly the indigenous ones, have some kind of religious festival or tradition that they all partake in. One village, called Todos Santos, has an all day horse race where all [...]
On Monday, we took a trip to a coffee farm about an hour’s drive around the lake. It was by far the coolest experience we have had since we have been here. The owner of the farm is a Guatemalan guy named Charlie. He and his family live on the farm, [...]
This post is mainly for the padres so they can sleep in peace knowing that our precious heads are now protected by helmets. We took a nice little trip to the city to purchase helmets because apparently no one sees the necessity of them here in Pana. Michael and the family left on Sunday [...]
Mike and Adele bought an acre of land from Wolf about 2 years ago. They spent a year, using their day off to put up a chain link fence around the land. They spent a few days out of town after they had finished the project. When they came back, 3/4 [...]
That was just for kicks. It is a bag of Pana Organic green beans, with other origins behind it.
FAQ:
Paint job on van done locally?
Michael and Adelle did the paint job in California when they got the van…They used a rectangle shape to make sure the flags were all the same [...]
We are soo glad so many people have been checking out the site. We have noticed a lot of questions that we have not answered. We are working on a post to put questioning minds to rest. We would also love to hear from people who haven’t posted yet.
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