The trees are loaded with red fruit, all ripened up pretty evenly, which makes for a good even harvest.

Our coffee trees were just too big! You could barely walk down the rows, let alone mow, without getting attacked by lateral coffee branches.

The sweet soft rain fell on the last weekend of August – oh how lovely it was! It was the first real rain since June 5th.

With cooler nights and less sun hours per day the coffee bushes will finally not be growing at the rate of knots they were over summer.

The coffee trees at Zentveld’s family farm are in their element after a ‘proper’ summer and mild start to autumn.

Starting a coffee roastery on a plantation and working on becoming a ‘roastmistress’ from the age of 24, brought a bit of media attention over the early years.

The rains came, and so did the flowering! Right on time, 10 days after decent rain, flowers set.