Coffee plantations

From Uberlandia (some other city):
http://www.coffeeholding.com/company/responsibility-a-awards/3-coffee-holding-company/company/19-a-trip-to-daterra-coffee-in-minas-gerais-brazil

i remember watching a Michael Palin travel show in which he visited a plantation close to Ouro Preto.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=palin+brazil&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=t-y4VtW9OsXqee61lOgO#q=brazil+with+michael+palin+the+road+to+rio&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3yIo3NSwxU-LVT9c3NEwyS842KM_J0ZLKTrbSLykDoviCovz0osRcq9SCzOL8lNRiAC1VhHQ5AAAA

It seems that every piece of land of Minas Gerais State has a coffe plantation. My daughter lives in a tiny town on the south of the state and there is a coffee plantation at a close place known as “sertãozinho” where they produce a delicious “café da roça”. It’s out of way and the harvest is in June when the wheater is dry. It would be better start with Instituto Biológico de São Paulo - Avenida Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves, 1251 – Vila Mariana – São Paulo. Free visitation after 8:00. Itu, a city known because everything is big there, has “Fazenda Santo Antonio da Bela Vista” and Fazenda Concordia. You may take a look at www.cafefazendapessegueiro.com.br. and Café Dona Mathilde. But the big producers are in Caratinga and São João do Manhuaçu, one hour far from Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Taking care of a coffe plantation is not easy as it seems at the first glance.

Honestly, anywhere around the MG/SP/RJ area it's really easy to find a coffee plantation. Campinas has a coffee museum and is surrounded by coffee plantations; although they are generally just big farms, and not aimed at visitors, they will generally not mind if you ask to walk around their land, and might even show you around (probably don't speak English, though). On the other end of the area, I was told that next to the entrance to the Pico da Bandeira mountain trail there's a fazenda that grows some of the best coffee in Brazil and you can visit (but I haven't actually been there). There are coffee farms all the way north into Bahia (there's some farms around the Chapada Diamantina area) and south into Parana that grow coffee of different quality (you'll find small growers focused on boutique coffee, and big growers that cater for Pilão, Melitta or export)

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