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View from Gathugu is astonishing.
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Elizabeth Muchiri, like most farmers around this area, owns a cow which produce milk for the family and manure for the coffee trees.
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Peter Muchiri (husband to Elizabeth) was born in 1945 and works with his coffee trees every day.
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These trees were planted in 1960 and the roots have developed since then. The white stuff on the ground is limescale to combat low pH (sour soil).
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Peter Muchiri showing us his bookkeeping of all the coffee he's sold in the past years. He also keeps scores on the prices that the different factories and societies have been paying out.
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We've had the fortune to meet Elizabeth Muchiri at Gathugu the past three times we've visited and she's always smiling and welcoming.
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Mbuni is what we usually call naturals. But it more reflects that it's also the over- and underripe cherries that a farmers has sorted out before delivering coffee to the factory.
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Gathugu Watchtower
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Lifting coffee bags is heavy work and wouldn't be allowed under strict Danish work regulations. Nevertheless it's the reality here, which Klaus got a piece of.
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Gathugu delivering the very final lot of coffee to the dry mill
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Blue skies over Gathugu washing station
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Hole in the wall. This is where the coffee exit the cherry hopper and enter the depulper.