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Honduran teen grows coffee in Habersham from homeland beans to pay for college
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Kevin Arita, left, and Dennis Rogers construct a greenhouse for growing coffee plants in Cornelia. Arita and Richard Stafford founded Yonah Coffee Co. last year. They’re growing coffee plants and expect to be able to harvest them in November 2014.
Kevin Candelario Arita grew up around coffee as a child in the mountain village of Mar Azul, Honduras. Now a senior at Norcross High School, Arita is growing coffee in the mountains of Habersham County. While most boys from Mar Azul quit going to school after the sixth grade to work in the mountainside coffee fields, Arita has put his hope for a college education into the very same plants.