Coffee in Costa Rica

The coffee in Costa Rica is some of the world´s finest. Yesterday we traveled to a coffee plantation, Del Cafe Tal. It is run by woman named Daisy Rodriguez. She has just recently won an award that gives her the title of best coffee in all of Costa Rica. I am not an avid lover of coffee, but apprarently it is suppose to be pretty good here.

These are coffee beans before they are put through the milling to remove the red skin. The greenish beans is with the skin removed, but it has not been process yet thus there is not a dark color to it.

This is the coffee plant.

Once picked the beans are put through the mill below that cleans them and remove the red skin.

On the left is the drying process. After going through the mill the coffee beans are left out in these trays to sun dry.

We were able to see the coffee shop that has been opened because of Daisy´s recent success.

Today we are going to visit a larger coffee plantation, Cafe Britt. We will be comparing the different size plantation and observing how Fair Trade Coffee is affects the economy of Costa Rica.

Fair trade is a trading partnership that contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers.

There will be more to come on coffee...