Coffee Planter's Diary Featured Sound and Silence in Coffee Country Vagaries of weather might diminish the coffee, but they can't take away the green hills and trees of Malnad and the quiet of the country.
Coffee Planter's Diary The Burden of Being the Owner "Pay the full amount," Anwar says, "start the deductions from Friday." Dharmendra and Harish laugh. "How shall we explain that to the malik?"
Coffee Planter's Diary It's That Time When the Coffee Plants Think They're Dying The plants will lift up, and they will bloom white all at once across the plantation, making these tropical tracts look like they're snowed upon.
Coffee Planter's Diary Lost in the Woods "But why must you be close to nature? The wild must live undisturbed in the wild, and the human must stay put in the city."
Coffee Planter's Diary Coffee Planting: Costa Rican Vs Guatemalan Vs Colombian Kenyan coffee planters, who took to multi-stem farming and returned to the single system, hold empirical proof that multi-stem doesn't work.
Coffee Planter's Diary Dealing With Disaster The crew is doing damage control now, drawing back the Yara from the base of the pepper and pushing it toward the mulch around the cardamom.
Coffee Planter's Diary With Modi in My Dreams, Getting Real About Coffee Birds, peafowl, hare, fox, boar. Trees, plants, and vines. Every rich shade of green. Who in his senses will argue you have caused damage here?
Coffee Planter's Diary Because Coffee and Pepper and Cardamom Must Live Even as they demand the best coffee, buyers want to be assured that God’s creatures are teeming on your property. We have good news for them.
Coffee Planter's Diary You Sow What You Reap. Really? The gods decide if a bean will make it to somebody’s gut or if it will merely rot in the soil that sprouted it.
Coffee Planter's Diary Peacock Proliferation, Elephants, Butterflies, and Coffee The peafowl has proliferated, the number of snakes has diminished, the toads are flourishing — all because the foxes have disappeared.
Coffee Planter's Diary The Mandala Snake "Why this particular fear of the mandala"? I asked him. "The cobra is poisonous, and they're here in greater numbers. You never mention a cobra sighting."
Coffee Planter's Diary The Truths About Corona Are Fake And That Is The Truth "We've hardly any corona," they said. "A fellow goes to the hospital with a fever. They throw him in a ward. They send him home in a few days. It's a scam."
Coffee Planter's Diary Locked Down Plantation, Elephants, Sandalwood Smugglers It's a blue-topped bright-green world now during June, and more avians than ever in the twelve years I've known the place have flown into the plantation.
Coffee Planter's Diary Malnad Diary: March The birds kept up their pitiable cries for over a half-hour. I cannot say what was up with them. Did they sight a cat? Was one in their numbers cuckolded?
Coffee Planter's Diary A Vegan Prayer Ceremony for Chowdy This Year When he brought his machete crashing down, slicing the banana and the vibhuti, and cracking the coconut, there wasn't in this year's poojé the yellow of yolk or the goo of egg-white.
Coffee Planter's Diary Death by the Trunk of an Elephant Such a death everybody had been anticipating — somebody would go like this, somebody other than them. Everybody was proved right, all but a 40-year-old, owner of the plantation next to ours on our east.
Musing An Indian Ruminates on Independence Day Though some of us speak of lost values and vanished principles, none will risk disruption of this opiate prosperous state of being.
Coffee Planter's Diary Kadumane Estate — A Giant Theater I take a last look at the glowing mist that has filled the trees and capped the hills. It is as though a cold white heat has rimmed this world, this enormous bowl ringed by hills.
Coffee Planter's Diary The White Planter's Coffee Club Peering through time, the mists are thick. In their haze are white men from six-thousand miles away, seeking fortune and adventure in the jungles of Malnad.
Coffee Planter's Diary Why is Shankar Shetru leaving Sakleshpur? Every morning, the planter should walk everywhere in his plantation — the trees and the pepper and the coffee seek his smell.
Indian Journeys The Drowned French Church At Magge But I saw and wondered at the power of government — how when they so choose they can arrive at a citizen's door and tell them to leave because they're going to flood their home.
Coffee Planter's Diary Hassan Town: Our Beginnings It's all very promising. A deep trench is dug on our boundary for a high wall to stand. A micro-economy has sent out its baby roots.
Coffee Planter's Diary Hassan: Memories and Lanes Three or four matches were on simultaneously — quite often, a hit from one game sent the ball to the field of another.
Coffee Planter's Diary A Place That Cheered Us I said out loud that I'd build a study by the tank if I owned a plantation, but the planter didn't quite approve. "Snakes," he said. In the manner in which he said it, there appeared to be other threats as well that he wouldn't speak of.
