Grow and harvest
Shade-grown coffee. We pick it, process it and roast it ourselves. Sugarcane harvested to send to the local trapiche. Small batch from start to finish. Fruit trees, grapes and vanilla on the vine, all coming into their own.
Coffee and Comida
Café
Coffee on the hillside, fruit trees in the bowl, vegetables in the garden beds, and a kitchen that puts it all to use. This is where growing, composting, and cooking come together on the ranch, one thing feeding the next.
Garden
This area of the finca is always changing. There is nothing like harvesting food and enjoying it daily. Freshly cut herbs offer the ultimate flavors. Food bursting with freshness is a joy to behold!
Compost
Turning waste into treasure. Manure is fermented then processed into nutrient rich soil amendment or added with food scraps to be transformed. Either, the Red Wrigglers get fed, to then collect their castings or we feed the Soldier Fly bin, to make chicken feed. It all goes back into the loop. The circle of life.
Feeding Our Family
From the chicken eggs to the fruit trees, bananas, citrus and sugar cane. The diversity growing at our ranch can feed not only our family but our animals and the community.
Café
From the grapevine.
Ranch Journal
Roasting Ranch Coffee in a Wok on the Stove
We roast our coffee one small-batch at a time on the stove, watching color, smell and listening for that first crack that tells us the roast is moving in the right direction.
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Pollinator or Pest
When the little white butterflies start hovering over the kale and cauliflower we step up inspections fast. Catching them early saves our bounty for the kitchen.