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How Do You Pick Fresh Coffee Beans?

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Traditionally coffee is harvested by hand by one of two ways: strip picking or selective picking Strip picking is exactly how it sounds, trees are harvested entirely at one time “stripping” all the beans off the branches, ripe as well as unripe cherries. Typically, only robusta coffee is strip picked. How do you pick out … Read more

Is It Hard To Harvest Coffee Beans?

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In most countries, the crop is picked by hand in a labor-intensive and difficult process , though in places like Brazil where the landscape is relatively flat and the coffee fields immense, the process has been mechanized. How hard is it to farm coffee beans? Growing coffee isn’t hard It’s the time-consuming extraction of the … Read more