Coffee walk

noun KAF-fi WAAK ˈkafi waːk

Also spelled coffee-walk, coffee grove

A grove or planting of coffee trees, using the rural sense of 'walk' as a cultivated grove of one crop (as in 'mango walk', 'ackee walk'). In the Blue Mountains and other hills, tending the coffee walk — weeding, picking the ripe red berries, and drying them on the barbecue — is a mainstay of country livelihood.

  • Dem pick di ripe berry inna di coffee walk.

    They pick the ripe berries in the coffee grove.

  • Him have a coffee walk up inna di hills.

    He has a coffee grove up in the hills.

  • Di whole family work di coffee walk a reaping time.

    The whole family works the coffee grove at harvest time.

From 'coffee' + 'walk' (a single-crop grove). See [[mango-walk]], [[ackee-walk]].

A grove/plantation of coffee trees; 'walk' = single-crop grove. See [[mango-walk]], [[ackee-walk]], [[barbecue]].