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“Un Millón de Amigos” (video)

Here's a video of "Un Millón de Amigos", performed (and drawn) by my Coffee Camp students at La Hermandad:

Here's another project we've been working on at La Hermandad Coffee Camp ...

Here are some philosophical signs from around our Coffee Camp ...

Here's our camp kitchen... the morning tortillas are fresh off the pan:

Part of the beauty of the scene is how it changes almost every hour ...

The whole plantation pauses as picking stops for the afternoon, and everyone gathers at the beneficio to measure out each team's haul ...

Drawn from my seat at the back of the room.

I caught these two sisters drawing before camp one morning this week ...

Brigade member Kjol Johnson contributes this sketch ...

Here, my students would like to give you a basic overview of the various stages of coffee production on their semi-organic plantation ...

One thing I love about the weather here in the mountains of Northern Nicaragua -- it's so open to interpretation.

Instead of hauling out a camera to document the coffee harvest, I've been ducking out of the rain long enough to sketch ...