***
The more he studied coffee, the more difficult it became. No, to Cha Hae-jun, who had only known coffee mix as coffee in the first place, coffee was truly an unknown territory in itself.
Nevertheless, since all he had to do was grow it, he confidently accepted Antonio's request thanks to the farm and Pote.
As a test, he sowed coffee beans in a small space and watered them. It took a whopping four days for them to grow to a harvestable state. He picked the ripe red beans and gave them to Antonio, but the look on Antonio's face as he received the coffee beans was clearly one of disappointment.
"The quality is excellent, but it's not much different from the coffee I've harvested elsewhere. I guess I expected too much."
Hae-jun was greatly shocked by the unexpected reaction.
The Dimension Farm grew anything and everything quickly with the vitality of the earth and Pote's blessing.
As if it were a natural greenhouse, the warm sunlight, constant temperature, and humidity were maintained, so the crops bore fruit on their own without much care. And the food made from the crops harvested that way was very popular in the real world.
'Did I take it too lightly?'
Cha Hae-jun went into coffee cultivation research that day.
He studied whenever he had time to find out what kind of soil and growing environment coffee grew well in.
Just as Uncle Haas's arugula tasted fresher than Hae-jun's, he thought that if he provided a good environment for coffee, he would be able to produce coffee beans of the quality that Antonio wanted.
"This is difficult..."
Hae-jun scratched his head as he sat in the corner of the Sunflower window during his break time.
There were thousands of search results for the search term 'Coffee Cultivation', and he didn't know what to look at, so he quickly moved his thumb and scrolled down the screen.
The Internet had a lot of information, but there was also a lot of nonsense and false information.
Why on earth would they post cultivation methods as if they were facts when they didn't even know much about it?
He didn't understand.
"What are you looking at so intently?"
Min-ju approached Hae-jun, who had been touching his phone the whole time during his break.
Usually at this time, Hae-jun would go for a walk with Mongchi, the stray cat, or stay in the room in the corner of the Sunflower, so his unusual behavior was enough to pique her curiosity.
"I'm studying coffee."
"Why coffee all of a sudden?"
“Just because I’m a little curious.”
“You should ask me about that, oppa. I told you. I almost became a barista. I just didn’t get the certificate because I didn’t have time.”
“Right. Was that it?”
Hae-jun smiled at Min-ju’s words.
With Kim Min-ju, the part-timer who was well-versed in coffee and drinks, by his side, he wondered if he had taken the hard way for nothing.
“What do you want to know? How to make a cappuccino? Or drip coffee? Actually, drip coffee is quite difficult, but as you know, I learn anything quickly. I can do hand drip and Dutch coffee. So ask me anything.”
“Coffee cultivation method.”
“Aha. So that’s what you were curious about. Coffee cultivation. Well, that’s. So··· Huh? Co, coffee··· cultivation?”
“Uh. I was wondering how to grow it well.”
“Why are you curious about that?”
“Don’t you know that?”
“Rather than that, does coffee grow in our country?”
I did read an article that said that some bloggers succeeded in bearing coffee tree fruit at home and news that they commercialized it by creating an environment similar to the tropics.
“Ah··· That’s right. Hehe. I don’t know much about that difficult stuff either.”
She stuck out her tongue and smiled, perhaps embarrassed by the difficult question.
Come to think of it, even though Min-ju was a part-timer, she wasn’t a druid, so it was Hae-jun’s mistake for asking her.
“Right. If that’s the case, check out that site.”
“Where?”
She took the phone in Hae-jun’s hand and searched for the blog herself.
“It’s a blog called Devil’s Tears. I think he’s quite a famous barista. He personally travels to South America and Africa to visit coffee plantations, grasp their characteristics, and so on. It’s quite well-organized there.”
Indeed, as Min-ju said, it was written in detail, starting from the history of coffee, varieties, cultivation environment, and the process of harvesting the fruit to make coffee beans.
‘This will be helpful.’
“Thank you, Min-ju.”
“Hehe··· What for.”
***
The more he studied coffee, the more difficult it became. No, to Cha Hae-jun, who had only known coffee mix as coffee in the first place, coffee was truly an unknown territory in itself.
Nevertheless, since all he had to do was grow it, he confidently accepted Antonio's request thanks to the farm and Pote.
As a test, he sowed coffee beans in a small space and watered them. It took a whopping four days for them to grow to a harvestable state. He picked the ripe red beans and gave them to Antonio, but the look on Antonio's face as he received the coffee beans was clearly one of disappointment.
"The quality is excellent, but it's not much different from the coffee I've harvested elsewhere. I guess I expected too much."
Hae-jun was greatly shocked by the unexpected reaction.
The Dimension Farm grew anything and everything quickly with the vitality of the earth and Pote's blessing.
As if it were a natural greenhouse, the warm sunlight, constant temperature, and humidity were maintained, so the crops bore fruit on their own without much care. And the food made from the crops harvested that way was very popular in the real world.
'Did I take it too lightly?'
Cha Hae-jun went into coffee cultivation research that day.
He studied whenever he had time to find out what kind of soil and growing environment coffee grew well in.
Just as Uncle Haas's arugula tasted fresher than Hae-jun's, he thought that if he provided a good environment for coffee, he would be able to produce coffee beans of the quality that Antonio wanted.
"This is difficult..."
Hae-jun scratched his head as he sat in the corner of the Sunflower window during his break time.
There were thousands of search results for the search term 'Coffee Cultivation', and he didn't know what to look at, so he quickly moved his thumb and scrolled down the screen.
The Internet had a lot of information, but there was also a lot of nonsense and false information.
Why on earth would they post cultivation methods as if they were facts when they didn't even know much about it?
He didn't understand.
"What are you looking at so intently?"
Min-ju approached Hae-jun, who had been touching his phone the whole time during his break.
Usually at this time, Hae-jun would go for a walk with Mongchi, the stray cat, or stay in the room in the corner of the Sunflower, so his unusual behavior was enough to pique her curiosity.
"I'm studying coffee."
"Why coffee all of a sudden?"
“Just because I’m a little curious.”
“You should ask me about that, oppa. I told you. I almost became a barista. I just didn’t get the certificate because I didn’t have time.”
“Right. Was that it?”
Hae-jun smiled at Min-ju’s words.
With Kim Min-ju, the part-timer who was well-versed in coffee and drinks, by his side, he wondered if he had taken the hard way for nothing.
“What do you want to know? How to make a cappuccino? Or drip coffee? Actually, drip coffee is quite difficult, but as you know, I learn anything quickly. I can do hand drip and Dutch coffee. So ask me anything.”
“Coffee cultivation method.”
“Aha. So that’s what you were curious about. Coffee cultivation. Well, that’s. So··· Huh? Co, coffee··· cultivation?”
“Uh. I was wondering how to grow it well.”
“Why are you curious about that?”
“Don’t you know that?”
“Rather than that, does coffee grow in our country?”
I did read an article that said that some bloggers succeeded in bearing coffee tree fruit at home and news that they commercialized it by creating an environment similar to the tropics.
“Ah··· That’s right. Hehe. I don’t know much about that difficult stuff either.”
She stuck out her tongue and smiled, perhaps embarrassed by the difficult question.
Come to think of it, even though Min-ju was a part-timer, she wasn’t a druid, so it was Hae-jun’s mistake for asking her.
“Right. If that’s the case, check out that site.”
“Where?”
She took the phone in Hae-jun’s hand and searched for the blog herself.
“It’s a blog called Devil’s Tears. I think he’s quite a famous barista. He personally travels to South America and Africa to visit coffee plantations, grasp their characteristics, and so on. It’s quite well-organized there.”
Indeed, as Min-ju said, it was written in detail, starting from the history of coffee, varieties, cultivation environment, and the process of harvesting the fruit to make coffee beans.
‘This will be helpful.’
“Thank you, Min-ju.”
“Hehe··· What for.”
