Drying the Coffee Beans

This gentleman moves this coffee rake through the beans in order to get them to dry evenly.  This process takes around four days and the beans are placed upon slabs of concrete in the sun.  The concrete looks like housing foundations that we would normally see in the states.  This particular one is located in Matagalpa Nicaragua.  Beans need to go through this process before heading inside to be divided by screen size.  When it rains he simply flips the tarp closed and waits for the rain to finish then he unrolls the tarps again exposing the beans.  This is an old school process which is critical to drying the beans correctly.