Greetings from Mykanos. We are in the heart of the cosecha at the moment and it is proving a challenge for everyone. As compared to last year, when we were delivering our coffee to the Co-OP as cherries (cerises) due to the abysmal state in which our former administrator had left our beneficidero (processing plant), […]
Greetings from Bogotá. I am having a short break from the farm to give Adriano more space to lead the cosecha (harvest), which is a couple of weeks in. We had been suffering an extended drought, which was causing real problems. Not only do we need sufficient rain to mature the coffee cherries so they […]
Greetings from Mykanos. It has been an unconscionably long time since my last Letter, for which I sincerely apologise. Part of the reason is having to spend too long in London, another part is coping with La Traviesa, the small harvest, and the other part is having to rework my book, as some of what […]
Greetings from Mykanos. It is that time of the year, when the weather is hot and sunny. If you call 27C hot, that is. Compared to -40F in Chicago and 45C in New South Wales, it seems very boring here but we like it, and so does the coffee. In fact so do most things. […]
Greetings from Mykanos. We would like to wish Happy New Year to you all. December was primarily the month of the cosecha … the coffee harvest. As I mentioned in a previous Letter this was the first cosecha in more than a decade of which we have been solely in charge … sorry, I mean […]
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