Over the Mountain and Through the Woods, to Carlos's Finca We Go!!

8/1/09
After a morning-long meeting with many of the members of the Rosquillas del Valle de Zamorano, we headed up into the mountains to view the current production facilities and learn how to make the product ourselves. Before heading there, we were not entirely certain what to expect. We knew it was Carlos’s place and that he has one of the two ovens that the micro-enterprise is planning to use for production, but, other than that, we were not sure how we were going to pass four or so hours up in the mountain.
It turned out that Carlos’s home was also used for interactive classes which encompassed cooking and some agricultural areas. For most the time passed quickly and before long we were hiking back to the van so that Rafa would not have to drive down the mountain in the dark of night. Besides enjoying “la laguna” and the beauty Carlos’s land, our brigade also learned how the enterprise produced their rosquillas, tostacas, and quesadillas, were able to try our hand at every step of the process, and saw many areas in which a more efficient process was needed to decrease production time and the amount of work needed.