From Plant to Bag Hello, coffee friends! Have you ever wondered how your favorite coffee starts? It is a long, careful trip! We want to show you the important steps we take to make our special, handmade coffee. Step 1: The Coffee Plant Our coffee grows on small trees. We take good care of them. Red is Ready: When the coffee fruit (we call it a cherry ) is ripe, it turns red. Hand Picking: We only pick the red cherries. We use our hands to choose only the very best ones. This is slow work, but it makes the coffee taste very good. Step 2: Cleaning and Drying After picking, we take the small seed from inside the red cherry. This seed is the coffee bean! Washing: We wash the beans to make them clean. Sun Bath: We let the clean beans dry slowly in the sun. They need to dry for many days. We move them often so the sun dries them all. This is a very important step for the flavor. Step 3: Making the Beans Brown (Roasting) The dry bean is green. It does not look o...
