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A lone red coffee harvester winds its way along a row of coffee bushes at Fazenda São Francisco, a coffee plantation perched above Brazil’s Rio Itararé in São Paulo State. The machines use vibrating acrylic fingers to shake the coffee cherries loose and drop them onto a flexible skirt that goes around the base of the bush. Around the world, most Arabica coffee is grown in the partial shade of tropical forests at over 3,300 feet, but this area just north of the Tropic of Capricorn has a climate that allows the coffee bushes to flourish at 2,300 feet as a monocrop between windbreaks of eucalyptus trees. Fertile soils, plentiful water, and the ability to harvest with machines have helped Brazil dominate the world coffee market, producing more than a third of the beans grown on the planet. Fazenda São Francisco grows the bourbon variety of Arabica coffee.

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A lone red coffee harvester winds its way along a row of coffee bushes at Fazenda São Francisco, a coffee plantation perched above Brazil’s Rio Itararé in São Paulo State. The machines use vibrating acrylic fingers to shake the coffee cherries loose and drop them onto a flexible skirt that goes around the base of the bush. Around the world, most Arabica coffee is grown in the partial shade of tropical forests at over 3,300 feet, but this area just north of the Tropic of Capricorn has a climate that allows the coffee bushes to flourish at 2,300 feet as a monocrop between windbreaks of eucalyptus trees. Fertile soils, plentiful water, and the ability to harvest with machines have helped Brazil dominate the world coffee market, producing more than a third of the beans grown on the planet. Fazenda São Francisco grows the bourbon variety of Arabica coffee.

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