Barista & Farmers
Barista holds the most interesting coffee competitions with farmers Called Barista & Farmers. This idea was generated by a multi time Italian Barista champion Mr. Franesco Sanapo together with the owner of Ditta Artigianale. This annual event is a combination of a game show and a hard labour on a Farm of coffee beans.
Barista holds the most interesting coffee competitions with farmers Called Barista & Farmers. This idea was generated by a multi time Italian Barista champion Mr. Franesco Sanapo together with the owner of Ditta Artigianale. This annual event is a combination of a game show and a hard labour on a Farm of coffee beans.
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<strong>Barista</strong> & <strong>Farmers</strong> Competition: It's Time for Columbia
<strong>Barista</strong> & <strong>Farmers</strong> Competition: It's Time for Columbia<br />
<strong>Barista</strong> holds the most interesting coffee competitions with farmers Called <strong>Barista</strong> &<br />
<strong>Farmers</strong>. This idea was generated by a multi time Italian <strong>Barista</strong> ch<strong>amp</strong>ion Mr. Franesco<br />
Sanapo together with the owner of Ditta Artigianale. This annual event is a combination of a<br />
game show and a hard labour on a Farm of coffee beans.<br />
In this event, all the baristas from all over the world, come to take part in ten days<br />
competition on the growth, harvesting, processing and exports of coffee. Since 2015,<br />
Francesco has been holding this competition every year. This year he will work with<br />
Specialty Coffee Association, Sigep and Italian exhibition group together with Servicio<br />
Nacional de Aprendizaje and Istituto Italo-Latino Americano (IILA) as partners in<br />
collaboration with world Coffee events.<br />
In the present year's event ten baristas from all around the world will be spending ten days in<br />
travelling throughout the Columbian regions where coffee is grown. They will make stops in<br />
the Huila and Meta departments as they will learn the process of growing, picking and<br />
processing coffee. These baristas are mixture of experienced, skilled and new people to the<br />
world of coffee. These people were selected out of 250 applicants. <strong>Barista</strong>s are required to<br />
attend <strong>Barista</strong> and Farmer Academy to take classes from qualified and certified Q-Graders on<br />
coffee extraction, agronomy and botany. After attending these classes, these people will work<br />
on farms to pick coffee cherries that will ultimately be used to make a cup of coffee.<br />
Meanwhile, baristas will be tarined for experimental processing methods to test new<br />
techniques to process coffee they will also study the ways processing coffee affects the cup of<br />
coffee.<br />
There will be number of competitions throughout the event. Previous years, the competition<br />
also included latte art and relay race competition but theses competition are only intended to<br />
bring these people closer to farmers to prepare themselves for becoming a global ambassador<br />
of Specialty Coffee. They will be aiming to understand the daily activities of coffee growers<br />
in order to connect themselves completely with coffee that is being served in the cafes. Each<br />
year, the competition takes place in different coffee producing country. This year it is<br />
happening in Columbia. This new edition in the competition maintains the values of<br />
competition and education acting as a bridge between two different cultures of Columbia and<br />
Italy.<br />
All the challenges in the competition will be broadcasted together with competitions. This<br />
makes this competition a reality show. The event will be held during May 3rd to 13th. The<br />
event will be taped and broadcasters will add the segments on a continuous basis to you tube<br />
channel of <strong>Barista</strong> & <strong>Farmers</strong> together with all other social media channels. After each event,<br />
the group will make a short film comprising of the weekly highlights.
References<br />
https://www.baristamagazine.com/barista-farmer-colombia/<br />
https://www.caffeinelab.me/products/barista-course-level-1