Almost all Costa Ricans drink coffee. They also grow a lot of it. The big school vacation is from November to January so that children can help with the coffee harvest. Many Nicaraguans from the country to the north come to Costa Rica trying to find work picking coffee. Picking coffee beans is hard work, workers are paid only by the amount they pick, and a good worker makes less than twenty dollars a day.
This is where they measure how many beans were picked.
Coffee plants are grown in planters first because armadillos looking for worms to eat often destroy the young plants. They are then planted in the ground and trimmed to grow upward. Coffee plants only needs two hours of direct sunlight so the farmer often plants fruit or nut trees along side the coffee plants to shade them, and receive a second crop of fruit or nuts.
After the beans are picked they are soaked to remove the shells or skins. The beans are then dried in huge courtyards until they reach a specific humidity. Then they are either packaged to be exported, or roasted and sold locally. The skins are composted and then used by the farmers as fertilizer.
If I don’t get my coffee every morning before I teach, I’m crabby.
You don't look crabby, so it must be "post coffee".
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