Costa Rica offers a perfect climate for coffee farming, and coffee is a very important export for the country. There are about 78,000 coffee producers in Costa Rica, so you can easily see how coffee is a way of life for many Costa Ricans. One of them, the owner Gabriel is the actual guide, he shows methods of growing coffee organically and shares his knowledge of Costa Rican history and farming culture. His farm is basically in the jungle. You can saw many beans on the trees in different shades of green and red. There were so many citrus trees around naturally shading his coffee plants. It is amazing to think that every coffee bean harvested here is picked by hand. You can learn a lot about growing coffee, the coffee culture in Costa Rica, and a lot of interesting facts about the country itself. El Toledo Coffee is a project that features coffee production in harmony with the environment. Here on the farm, they can to use natural resources to produce our organic coffee in a way that minimizes the impact on nature. To be able to reach this objective it is necessary to make a lot of changes to a typical coffee plantation-changes that there have implemented over the years. The coffee farm is an oasis with a breath taking view.
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