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We borrowed sheep from a friend to mow the coffee patch. If this works out well for us, we will likely buy our own.  

This is a view from the road.  The customers back up to the bin and dump their sacks of coffee right in. It goes down a chute to the machine below.  

On the far side of the pond there are 2 trucks with loads of coffee to be washed (the term we use for the process of milling and washing the pulp off the coffee beans).  The pickup coming up the drive is bringing the coffee pickers in for another day of picking.   

We had a great growing season this year, with rainfall amounts and frequency being nearly ideal, both during dry season and rainy season!  This season's coffee crop is looking good, and we've already been through the fields a couple times to pick the early small pickings. We can expect the crop to ripen more evenly for a good picking by the end of December, then the coffee harvest will peak in January and February before tapering off. We rebuilt one of our coffee drying greenhouses during the off-season, increasing our capacity.