When do you take coffee plants from the nursery to the farm? What do you first plant coffee seeds in? How long will you wait between flowering and the coffee harvest?
Coffee farming requires more than just hard work. It also needs specialist – and often technical – knowledge, even if coffee is just one of several crops for the farmer.
SEE ALSO: How Ripe Is Too Ripe? A VIDEO Guide to Coffee Cherry Picking
One Farmer’s Methods
The Colombian Coffee Grower’s Federation (Fedecafé) run the Colombian Coffee Hub, a depository of farming information, coffee stories, and more. They’ve shared how Luis Alirio Ríos Marulanda’s grows coffee on his farm.
It begins with burying the seeds in washed and disinfected sand, and ends with selective picking. He explains more in this video demonstration:
SEE ALSO: Origin Insight: How to Prune & Stump Coffee Trees in 2 VIDEOS
Feature photo credit: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS, via Wikipedia
Please note: Perfect Daily Grind does not own the rights to these videos and cannot be held accountable for their content.
The post Origin Insight VIDEO: Growing Coffee From Seed to Harvest appeared first on Perfect Daily Grind.
from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8200593 http://www.perfectdailygrind.com/2016/09/origin-insight-video-growing-coffee-seed-harvest/
No comments:
Post a Comment