Saturday, April 14, 2012

West Java - Bringing in the Beans!

In the blue, bleared hills of West Java, the coffee autumn coincides with agriculture of rice and cloves. Several weeks beforehand the circadian rainstorms, a connected during the wet season, abruptly eased- giving way to hot, dry baking canicule that burst with calefaction from mid morning onwards. The showers still arrive, but backward in afternoon, as the calefaction becomes about unbearable. As calmness descends on the villages that dot the hills, barrage storms activate their assured cycle bottomward from the slopes above. The sawah (the rice fields) that were blooming and abundant a ages afore are aureate and alive with a active burst as the rain storms arrive. Afore the rain arrives the air in the abundance towns is dry and fragrant, alternate with the acid aroma of dehydration cloves, crumbling coffee and the dusty, baking agitable soils. The admixture of these allegory aromas is reinvigorating for visitors from the cities on the plains below.



The autumn division is one of the best important times for the villagers- gathering, dehydration and processing their crops for the months advanced is a abundant advancing anniversary event. The accomplishment appropriate to auspiciously autumn rice, coffee and cloves accompanying involves the aggregate efforts of the absolute village- adolescent and old. The agriculture generally begins afore dawn, activity on able-bodied into the dark as coffee is best and agitated into the apple centres for processing.

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