Oct – Dec
Cardamom harvest, Coorg
Walk the pods at dawn, a wood-fired drying-floor tour, three-course planter's lunches under coffee canopy — a stay built into the harvest itself.
Cardamom grows in the shade of the coffee, which is why a Coorg estate looks like forest rather than farmland. The pods ripen unevenly and are picked by hand over several passes across the same ground.
What happens after the picking is the part outsiders never see — the drying floors, the wood-fired curing, and the grading that decides what the season was actually worth. The harvest overlaps the tail of the monsoon and the beginning of the coffee.
The shape of it
At dawn
Walking the pods
Cardamom ripens unevenly and is picked by hand over several passes across the same ground, which is why the day starts where it does.
Mid-morning
The drying floors
The wood-fired curing, and the grading afterwards - the part of the harvest outsiders never see.
Lunch
Under the canopy
Three courses under the coffee, which is what an estate looks like when the cardamom grows in its shade.
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