A Different Kind of Coffee House

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This is what we call "la casa de cafe" (i can´t find the accent symbol for the "e")

This is the building where they do the processing of coffee beans: peeling, drying, shelling, roasting, grinding and packaging. I´m sure I will have many more posts about coffee production because the harvest season is quickly approaching and in December I hope to help out with the picking or whatever else is possible.
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Here are some shots of the road we´ve been working on. There are three short-term mission groups here this week and one of the three projects people are working on this week is: building a road from the back of la casa de cafe up to the coffee plantation. This road is important because since they started processing the coffee cooperatively through the church each of the farmers/harversters has had to carry the 100 lb. bags of coffee beans down the hill on their backs. And because the mission is planning on expanding the coffee production, they find that a road would be a very helpful endeavor, ergonomically speaking.

I had heard we were going to be working on the coffee road, but when i got to the actual sight, I was shocked at the steep, rocky surfaces and had a hard time imagining that this would ever be a navigatable road.


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It was great to watch all the teenagers and other long term volunteers working so hard together.