The air is both warm and cool- two temperatures from moment to moment, back and 
forth. Direct sunlight warms as the altitude provides pockets of cool air. Finca Las
 Marias sits in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, where two thermal equators meet.
 Here, coffee grows in all stages on branches all year long. All of these external factors, 
including soil, cloud and rain patterns and Coffea arabica
loving temperature ranges make
 for the ideal place to plant and nourish the most select coffees in the world.

The sun rises over the Andes, crosses down on the  valley, over the Finca- situated on a
 steep Northwestern slope. In the afternoon, the sun crosses over the mountain to the valley
 behind.  Above, billowy clouds circulate, seemingly in place via the vortex created by the 
valley. Warmth from the intense period of direct sun, then shade and cool of night
 create a desirable stress on the coffee, pushing the shrubs’ existential resources -
sugars - to its seeds, a kind of evolutionary defense mechanism, bringing sweetness to
 the ripening coffee cherries.

José Giraldo has planted Gesha starting at 2050 masl, trailing from the peak of his farm
in layers down makeshift steps toward the river valley below.  As one walks through the 
sections of Gesha, shrubs selected and cultivated over ten years, tasting the ripe
 cherries, the fruit shows delicate and sweet florals that we taste in roasted Gesha 
coffee.

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