Happy Sunday!
Thus far, this weekend has definitely been a pretty good one. Aside from accidentally waking up my entire family coming home from watching the CR v. Panama fútbol game on Friday night, which was somewhat less than amusing. Nonetheless, GO TICOS!
Yesterday we visited a local, organic, and sustainable coffee/bananas/sugar cane/plantains/tomatoes/everything plantation down a very steep road in nearby San Luis. As you will see in the following pictures (I hope!) it was truly an amazing place, and the farmer was so charming and adorable.
We also saw the same farmer this morning when we went to the local Quaker meeting--I have never been to a religious service that was so calming with so much time for personal reflection and introspection. If there is any better place in the world to find religion in nature than in Costa Rica, I don't think that I will ever find it. There is no better church than a rainforest. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures!
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| The lovely view from the main house on the plantation. |
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| Cute little farm kitty! |
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| Seriously, who wouldn't want to look out from their porch and see this every morning? |
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| The beautiful road up toward the main coffee/banana fields. The coffee bushes are all shade grown beneath the banana and plantain trees. As an aside, fried plantains are the best food in the whole world. |
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| One of the family farmers (he is one of 12 brothers and sisters) demonstrating how to harvest/tie a banana bunch. |
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| Unripe, mostly green coffee beans. The beans will turn bright, deep red when they are ready, and each bean contains two individual beans. |
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| PAPAYAS!!!! |
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| The inside "rings" of a banana tree. They remind me of a sea shell. |
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| Beautiful ripe coffee beans! Handpicked by us! |
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| Fresh cane juice inside of a banana petal cup! You can't get any fresher than that. |
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| Unroasted, organic coffee beans drying in the sun. |
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| A close up of the drying coffee beans. After this step, which can take a week, the beans will have their inner shells peeled off and will be roasted and sold at the local fair trade co-op. |
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