When I have shared images of the long-standing poro trees on this land, as well as the seedlings we have grown and now planted, it was to show the shade and nitrogen-fixing cohabitants of this land. Cohabitation between coffee and poro is a Latin American adaptation to adjust for the fact that arabica coffee trees first naturally occurred under the canopy of forests in Ethiopia. You can see those old poro trees in the background of these two photos, where ripe coffee cherries are in the foreground.
It is time to harvest these cherries from the several coffee trees that held their ground for more than two decades since this land was converted from farm to yard. In our conversion of yard to farm, these ripe cherries will provide the seeds for replanting the land after processing them in the simplest manner. Tomorrow I will show that process.
