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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 …