In BASLAY HIGHLAND BREW COFFEE coffee is harvested only once a year. This time we were lucky and could experience some of it personally.

It is very important here that the cooperative produces an organic Robusta coffee that comes from the forest and not from a coffee farm.

Some of the cooperative’s employees willingly explained the process of steeping and removing the pulp using a mortar. After that, the coffee beans are dried in the shade before they can be roasted.

They also let us know that there are cevit cats here in the forest and that some coffee bean excretions have been found. These are collected throughout the harvest season to be made into cevit coffee.

We were allowed to follow behind the buildings the first wide path into the jungle and found here quite a few already harvested coffee bushes, on which now only more green coffee berries hung for further ripening. The path became more and more adventurous and after we had also perceived a rustling in the distance, we made our way back to the café. A little too late, because we still got to feel something of the tropical shower.

The cooperative gives work and income to some people and is just one of the businesses in the municipality of Dauin in Negros Oriental. The municipality owns several beach resorts and dive centers. The neighboring municipalities of Bacong and Zamboanguita also have these on a smaller scale. Together with the hotels in Dumaguete City, a lot of bed linen and towels are generated here daily from the many spas. For this reason, not too long ago, the company.