If only I liked cafe...

We went to a coffee plantation today and learned all about cafe.  Here's how its made:
Step 1:

Grow coffee!
















Step 2:

Pick the coffee!

We were told that Costa Ricans don't like to pick coffee, so its mostly Nicaraguans who pick it. A person makes $20 a day picking coffee, and a good picker picks and fills about 10 of those baskets!

This is what a bean looks like when its ready to be picked.

Step 3:

Dry the coffee!

The coffee is dried by the sun. It is moved like this every 45 minutes for 5-6 hours (I think - I'm trying to remember all this information).

Dried coffee beans.

Step 4:

Roast the dried beans.

Ya esta!

I'm sure the coffee here is really good - but it all tastes like coffee to me (so not very good).