Coffee Experience: Nestle Experimental and Demo Farm

Being a coffee lover myself, I was intrigued with the idea on how coffee is made:) So kim and I went to visit the Nestle Experimental Demo Farm in Magdum, Tagum City which can be reached via Davao. We met the very accomodating and uuubbbeeerrrrly kind Sir Eddie and Sir Ramon to explain to us the basics in coffee planting.  We learned that, with just our local consumption of coffee, only 40% are from local farmers and the rest are imports.  That is why, Nestle created this institution to help coffee farmers and future farmers to be encouraged to invest in this industry.

Here are some photos from seedling, to their mother plants, teaching area where they showed us how bending was done to allow water sprouts to grow and the area for the cuttings to grow roots.

We thought our visit was really productive and we learned a lot from NEDF. We hope we can return in the future as we start our new venture in coffee planting. So we could really say that we a truly coffee lovers!:)

Above picture is me with a little souvenir from NEDF....Hoping and praying that we can make it happen for us and our love for coffee:-)

This is the love of my life looking for what we'll do next in Davao. Davao is really such a nice place. We're hoping we'd be settling in here in the future:) We really enjoyed our vacation..till next time:)