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PHASE 01 — THE MOUNTAIN & THE LAND

The farmhand's phone photo
Photo of Ol donyo sapuk coffee estate documentary
Photo of a wide establishing shot of a Kenyan highland coffee estate at first light
Phone photo taken from a red dirt farm road

PHASE 02 — LAND PREPARATION

Photo of freshly prepared coffee planting block on red volcanic soil
Photo shot of two Kenyan farm workers' hands and forearms mixing dark organic manure
Phone photo of newly laid black polyethylene drip lines running across tilled red-brown soil beds

PHASE 03 — SEEDLING NURSERY

Photo of coffee seedlings nursery for Ol Donyo Sapuk Coffee
Photo of rows of vigorous six-month-old coffee seedlings with glossy deep-green leaves in black polybags under shade netting
Photo of extreme close-up of experienced Kenyan hands performing a V-cut graft on a young coffee seedling

PHASE 04 — PLANTING OUT

Photo of a Kenyan farm worker kneeling on red soil lowering a healthy seedling
Phone photo down a newly planted row

PHASE 05 — CARE & HUSBANDRY (Years 1–3)

Photo of a middle-aged Kenyan farmer pruning a mature coffee bush with well-worn secateurs
Phone photo of dark cattle manure and dry grass mulch rings spread around the bases of young coffee trees
Photo of a coffee farm ecosystem

PHASE 06 — FLOWERING & THE BEES

Photo of a coffee branch covered in clusters of white jasmine-like coffee blossoms
Photo of a weathered hand-carved cedar beehive box mounted at an angle on a rough wooden post
Phone photo of an entire coffee block in full white flower

PHASE 07 — GREEN CHERRY DEVELOPMENT

Photo of dense clusters of hard green coffee cherries lining a young branch
Photo of a farmer's hand gently lifting a branch heavy with green cherries to inspect the underside

PHASE 08 — RIPENING (The Red Wall)

Photo of a coffee tree absolutely laden with deep crimson ripe cherries from base to crown
Photo close-up of a single branch, red-ripe cherries with natural skin gloss
Photo of extreme close-up of a single branch, red-ripe cherries with natural skin gloss and faint dust film

PHASE 09 — HAND-PICKING (Red-Ripe Only)

Photo shot of a Kenyan picker's weathered hand selecting only the deep-red ripe cherries from a mixed cluster
Photo of three Kenyan pickers spaced along a coffee row, each with a bucket or kiondo basket tied at the waist
Phone photo of a picker's basket in the foreground half-full of red cherries with a few leaves and stems mixed in

PHASE 10 — SHADE REST & COLLECTION

Photo of freshly picked red cherries resting in woven baskets and yellow plastic buckets under the deep shade of a mango tree
Photo of freshly picked red cherries in woven baskets and yellow plastic buckets under the deep shade of a mango tree
Photo of cherries being poured from a bucket onto a hanging spring scale at a rough wooden collection table

PHASE 11 — DELIVERY TO THE WET MILL / FACTORY

Phone photo of sacks and buckets of red cherry loaded on the back of a motorbike and a weathered single-cab pickup on a red murram road
Photo of red cherries cascading from a tipped sisal sack into the elevated inverted-pyramid steel hopper of the estate pulping line
Phone photo from ground level looking up at the green steel hopper tower inside the open-sided mill shed

PHASE 12 — PULPING

Photo of the red-painted disc pulper in action inside the green angle-iron pulping line
Photo of close shot of the rotating perforated steel drum pre-grader mid-run
Phone photo of the green discharge chute sloping down from the pulper into a tiled channel
Photo shot of a steaming heap of fresh coffee pulp being forked into a wheelbarrow for composting

PHASE 13 — FERMENTATION (Two Paths)

Photo of a rectangular open-air fermentation tank with cream ceramic-tiled walls filled with wet parchment coffee under a thin film of water
Phone photo looking down into adjoining cream-tiled fermentation bays
Photo of sealed blue plastic fermentation barrels with one-way airlock valves lined against a wet-mill wall

PHASE 14 — WASHING & GRADING CHANNELS

Photo of a long serpentine washing and grading channel lined in cream ceramic tiles curving downhill in a gentle S-bend
Photo of a close shot of a galvanized sluice gate in the tiled grading channel being lifted by hand
Photo of the circular concrete skin-water basin in the bare-earth mill yard

PHASE 15 — DRYING ON RAISED AFRICAN BEDS

Photo of rows of raised African drying beds made of rough wire mesh and timber frames
Photo of rows of raised African drying beds made of rough timber frames and wire mesh
Phone photo shot along the drying beds at knee height, uneven wire mesh sagging slightly under the parchment

PHASE 16 — MOISTURE TESTING & CONDITIONING

Photo of close-up of a handheld digital moisture meter reading 11.2% with parchment beans in its cup chamber
Photo of a handful of dried parchment coffee cracked open in a palm to reveal the blue-green raw bean inside, papery husk fragments scattered
Photo of a handheld digital moisture meter reading 11.2% with parchment beans in its cup chamber

PHASE 17 — HAND SORTING & GRADING

Photo of three Kenyan women seated at a rough wooden sorting table spread with green coffee beans
Photo of 3 Kenyan women seated at a rough wooden sorting table spread with green coffee beans, hands mid-motion picking out defective beans into small tins
Phone photo top-down of graded green beans in labelled sisal sacks folded open

PHASE 18 — MILLING PREP & BAGGING

Photo of sisal sacks of parchment coffee stacked in a cool dark estate store on wooden pallets, batch numbers stencilled in black
Photo of two workers hoisting a stitched 60kg sisal bag onto a shoulder-height stack
Photo of two farm workers hoisting a stitched 60kg sisal bag onto a shoulder-height stack

PHASE 19 — ROASTING (Small Batch)

Photo of small-batch drum roaster mid-roast in a modest Kenyan roastery
Photo of a small-batch drum roaster mid-roast in a modest Kenyan roastery
Photo of freshly roasted beans cascading into the cooling tray, stirring arms rotating with motion blur

PHASE 20 — THE CUP & THE CEREMONY

Photo of cupping table with six white bowls of brewed coffee, a hand breaking the crust with a cupping spoon
Photo of a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony staged at the estate
Photo of a steaming enamel cup of black coffee held in a farmer's weathered hands