First Days on the Farm

This is the view from the porch where we eat breakfast every morning with the owners, Bob and Beryl. By Dave's second cup of 100% Kona coffee, he's in a place of absolute ecstasy. The rest of the day has a hard time measuring up.

We found this chameleon in a banana tree. He did not like Dave as much as this picture suggests.

Can you guess which Muscovy is a Sith lord?

The view from our studio apartment. Over ninety other WWOOFers have seen this.

Marmalade, whom I mistakenly and continually call Marshmallow.

This is in the coffee processing... place?... it's like a shanty. All the coffee making machinery is behind me (more on this to come!), but here you can see just how at home the chickens and ducks have made themselves. We regularly find a new eggs here, and this pretty Muscovy rarely leaves her nest under the table saw.

The journey from unripe coffee cherries to medium-dark roast beans is about three feet.

 

Had no idea what this was--it's a cacao tree! Perhaps I'll try to make some chocolate.

This tiny little tangerine tree is my favorite thing to eat off the farm, but I only get one about every other day. There are, however, tons of fresh pomegranates and papayas and literally hundreds of avocados. The bananas and passion fruit are green and won't be ready anytime soon. The trees that are not fruiting this time of year are mango, lime, lemon, and macadamia nut. I heard there are guava trees somewhere and I have no idea what that looks or tastes like, so potentially another thing to eat! (and the garden spiders are absolutely everywhere, along with ugly brown spiders that look like little transformers)

My favorite place on the farm, all the Muscovy ducks and chickens gather under the pomegranate tree to sleep and, occasionally, give us suspicious looks.