el salv trip recap: day 4

Day 4

Left the hotel to visit Maria Isabel De Martino and her farm Finca Ayutepeque. This was a low elevation farm, probably for commercial level coffees. This farm was passed on from her father. It was beautiful with a ton of history. Her big deal was creating a new organic fertilizer, Fertipull. She also educated us on the challenges of the climate changes. How it was killing some of her crop and how she had to adapt to new growing conditions.

   Left Finca Ayytepeque and went to a huge COOP called Cuzcahapa. 

We walked around the coop and saw how many times coffees are sorted, by hand and by machine.  

After we left the coop, we went to downtown Santa Ana for dinner.  We were allowed to walk around the downtown area for a few minutes. It was a parklike area with a huge historic church.

The downtown area had street vendors and normal stuff like this. Guys playing checkers and children trying to sell you their arts and crafts.

Left for a 2 hour drive back to Santa Ana.