date:Jul 25, 2018
icking. In strip picking, all of the coffee fruit is removed from the tree regardless of maturation. In selective picking, the ripe, red cherries are harvested, and this is generally done by hand. This process is more labor intensive than the strip picking and is generally used for finer arabica beans.
Step 3: Separation
Whatever the harvesting method, green and overripe coffee cherries inevitably end up mixed together with perfectly ripe coffee cherries. There are two main methods of separati