I took mom and dad and the boys to one of the coffee plantations at Rosemary Plain. Unfortunately it’s not the cherry picking season, so all the coffee cherries were green and there was no real action going on, but the owner showed us around and explained the process from planting a bean, to seedling, to planting the young tree, to harvesting, sorting, separating, draining, sorting and roasting and grinding. They package their own coffee and sell it at the St Helena Coffee Co (which they run), so it was very interesting to see the whole process. The trees take about two years of growing as little seedlings in black bags before they’re actually ready to transplant as a tree.
Had to go to town this morning for a couple of things, particularly bread. At 10.00 the bread hadn’t come in yet, so we did the other shopping and then returned shortly before 11, at which time it still hadn’t come in. I and one other lady stood around waiting because rumour had it that the bread was shortly to be delivered…by the time it came about ten minutes later, a crowd of about 25 had gathered. When it was wheeled in through the back doors in trolleys, it was like a feeding frenzy in a shark cage…25+ pairs of hands grabbing loaves out the trolleys. Not much of it actually even made it to the shelves. It was bizarre.
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