January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here are coffee beans laid out to dry in the sun at the Coffee Museum in Antigua, Guatemala. Prior to packaging and shipping, coffee beans must first meet exacting moisture measurements. By drying the coffee beans in the sun, coffee growers ensure that moisture levels are met.

January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here is a display of coffee beans in a barrel at the Coffee Museum in Antigua, Guatemala.

January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, the group meets with members of the Manos Campesinos coffee cooperative to learn more about the challenges of organic farming and direct exportation. During this visit the group learned that the rare roya disease is affecting coffee plants across Guatemala

January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, a worker carries two 100lb bags of coffee to be stored at a coffee warehouse in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, a worker carries two 100lb bags of coffee to be stored at a coffee warehouse in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, the group tours a coffee warehouse in Guatemala City, Guatemala. During this tour, the group learned how coffee beans are selected (and rejected) based on the quality of bean requested by the importer.

January 14, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here are coffee bags and a coffee bean processing machine in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The machine is used to determine and select the quality of bean requested by the importer.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here is the glass blowing cooperative Copavic outside of Xela, Guatemala. Glass bottles are collected and recycled and transformed into pieces of art as well as functional glass pieces used for drinking.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, the group listens to coffee growers discuss the growing and nurturing techniques used to produce organic coffee beans.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, the group listens to coffee growers discuss the growing and nurturing techniques used to produce organic coffee beans.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here is the road leading into Chel, Guatemala where the group met with coffee farmers on their farm.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here is a donkey in Chel, Guatemala.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, the group is stopped by a landslide on the road back from Chel, Guatemala. Landslides are a common occurrence in this mountain region. The team did its part to help clear the road and was soon back on its way down the mountain.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, the group wraps up dinner in Chajul, Guatemala to discuss what can be done to further promote the efforts of fair-trade and organic coffee in Guatemala.

January 17, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, Faith Fuller interviews Bill Harris of Cafe Campesino in San Pedro, Guatemala on Lake Atitlan.

January 18, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here is Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.

January 16, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here is the market in Chajul, Guatemala.

January 17, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, a woman weaves outside of her home near Chajul, Guatemala.

January 17, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, Bill Harris of Cafe Campesino, holds green coffee beans from local coffee growers in the Chajul region of Guatemala.

January 17, 2013 - Cafe Campesino led a group of travelers around Guatemala to learn more about fair-trade coffee and other cooperative efforts in the region. Pictured here, coffee bags are delivered to the Chajulense Cooperative in Chajul, Guatemala.