Brazil coffee harvest starts in the heart of its biggest city
The Peninsula
SAO PAULO: Brazil's arabica harvest kicked off symbolically this weekend with volunteers picking through one of the world's largest urban coffee farms at Sao Paulo's Instituto Biológico, a hub of agricultural research in the middle of the metropolis.
In the shadow of the institute's towering art-deco headquarters, the group worked its way through neat rows of 2,000 trees, marveling at the pastoral scene just a stone's throw from the city's central Ibirapuera Park. "I couldn't believe that here in Sao Paulo there's a place like this with a coffee plantation," said Luciano Caporroz, a lawyer volunteering in the harvest. "It's like therapy, right?"More Related News