Paula Pereira Villela owns and operates Sitio Grão Nobre, which is a farm dedicated not only to coffee production, but also to environmental protection and preservation: Areas of the farm have been reserved for native forest land, which includes the natural habitats of many different plants and animals. Coffee is harvested by hand on the farm, collected on cloth tarps and brought to the processing area in sacks the same day it is collected. It's processed and dried in a terreiro, a kind of mesh drying table. Paula Pereira Villela has collaborated with agronomists to discover the best means of planting, nurturing, harvesting, and processing the coffees, especially to make specialty lots.
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