Coffee cherry harvesting and processing workshop

🌡️ Climate change accelerates coffee ripening: Unique opportunity for early harvest

This year's unusually hot weather allowed Hong Kong's coffee berries to ripen earlier than expected, giving us a rare opportunity to pick and learn. In order to allow coffee lovers to enjoy the best picking experience, we decided to hold coffee fruit harvesting and processing workshops in advance to explore how climate change affects the cultivation and flavor of coffee.

Workshop Highlights:

• Learn how climate change is affecting coffee growing and delve into Hong Kong’s unique climate conditions
• Experience the joy of coffee picking and feel the hard work and harvest of farming
• Learn professional coffee processing techniques, including washing and fermentation processes
• Taste rare coffee grown locally in Hong Kong and discover its unique flavor

Event details:

• date：November 16 and 30, 2024 (Saturday)
• time:10am-1pm
• Place：San Chuk Hang, Fanling
• cost:$480

Seats are limited, first come first served! Please sign up now to experience the wonderful journey of Hong Kong’s local coffee from seed to cup!

Activity content:

• The relationship between climate and coffee: Explore whether Hong Kong’s climate conditions can support coffee cultivation
• Farm tour: A closer look at the coffee growing process
• Coffee picking experience: Become a coffee farmer for a day and pick ripe coffee beans by yourself
• coffee processing process: Practically participate in the washing method and fermentation process to understand the impact of the processing process on coffee flavor
• Taste Hong Kong’s local coffee: Taste rare Hong Kong coffee and feel its unique regional flavor