Coffee: From Bean to Cup
Travel to Costa Rica to partake in this unique opportunity to learn about the horticultural practices and processing involved in coffee production. This program is focused entirely on the challenge and practices of growing, harvesting and processing coffee, the second-most traded commodity on Earth!
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Costa Rica is completely different than I could have imagined. The country is filled with hills indistinguishable from mountains. San Jose is vast and expansive with few high rises sprinkled around and a traffic congestion that might rival Atlanta’s. The people are approachable, hardworking, and genuine. In Costa Rica, there is this can-do attitude that…
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It is so great to be home! No matter where I’ve been or how much fun I’ve had, I always find myself unable to exhale fully until the flight tracker enters American air. I have returned to America still buzzing with residual caffeine from the amount of incredible coffee consumed on the trip. This caffeine…
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Georgians often joke that our weather is having an identity crisis. Its not uncommon to go from a sunny 80 degrees on Monday to torrential downpour on Wednesday and a brisk 45 degree chill on Friday morning. While I am no stranger to changes in weather, I am a unfamiliar with packing for all those…
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In just a few short weeks, I’ll be boarding my first flight to Central America and I barely speak 3 phrases in Spanish. I’ve got my travel sized life all packed away in 3oz containers that fit haphazardly into a clear zip lock. As I spend my last few weeks in Athens prior to departure, I’m sitting…
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An old fashioned coffee grinder [caption id="attachment_2214" align="alignnone" width="300"] The berries of a coffee tree. Ripe berries are red.[/caption]
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This program, Coffee: From Bean to Cup! , taught me many things about coffee. I learned the coffee production process in Costa Rica. From the very first step of farming coffee plants to coffee harvesting, coffee processing, coffee roasting and coffee sensory evaluation, this program gave me interesting and practical knowledge of coffee. I tried…
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