Fair trade and organic coffee farming is the topic as a Jesuit High School mathematics and science teacher is on a large-scale research and environmental expedition in Costa Rica this week.
Jennifer Cournia, a 1997 Jesuit graduate, is in Coope Tarrazú, a farming cooperative located in the small town of San Marcos de Tarrazú.
Cournia is conducting research on coffee farms, meeting local farmers,
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Costa Rican coffee exports in December, the third month of the new 2008-09 crop cycle, rose 41% to 88,966 bags of 60 kilograms each, the official Costa Rican Coffee Institute, or Icafe, said Monday.
This compares to Costa Rican exports of 63,316 bags in December 2007 during the 2007-08 crop cycle (October-September), an Icafe said, citing first preliminary figures for the month.
Total Costa
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Astronauts cannot brew good coffee in space because of zero gravity, so they have had to make yucky instant coffee. Two Costa Rican engineering students, Daniel Rozen and Josue Solanoat, at Technological Institute of Costa Rica, invented the Space Infuser to solve the problem.
Cheers to Costa Rica for producing not only some of the finest coffee in the world, but also to these two Costa Ricans
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Source: Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee
The likely date of the arrival of coffee to America is 1720 when they brought the first seeds, Arabica Coffea species (Typical variety), to Martinique in the Antilles. From there originated the berry that was sowed in Costa Rica in the beginning of the 18th century.
Prominent Costa Ricans contributed to the development of coffee, and the first to cultivate
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Source: Reuters
San Jose, Costa Rica, June 9 - Costa Rica estimates it will produce 1.807 million 60-kg bags of coffee in the 2008/09 harvest, down 3.6 percent from the previous cycle due to the biannual nature of the crop, a top official from the national coffee institute ICAFE said on Monday.
Coffee trees usually produce less beans the year following a high-volume harvest.
Executive
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Coffee museum in Asserí brings back forgotten past
By José Pablo Ramírez Vindas
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Long ago the steep slopes of Aserrí were covered in emerald green coffee plants. The farmers used rudimentary machines to cultivate their “golden” crop. Today, many have forgotten the history, and huge companies have taken over much of the industry.
Luis Alfaro Zeledón wants to bring the
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Coffee museum in Asserà brings back forgotten past
By José Pablo RamÃrez Vindas
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Long ago the steep slopes of Aserrà were covered in emerald green coffee plants. The farmers used rudimentary machines to cultivate their “golden†crop. Today, many have forgotten the history, and huge companies have taken over much of the industry.
Luis Alfaro Zeledón wants to bring the
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Saul Bolanos invented Cafegrafia, or Coffee Art, the unique process of developing photographs using coffee instead of other chemicals. His photos are of Costa Rican Coffee processing from a century ago.
In this lens you will learn how coffee is now produced at Cafe Britt in Costa Rica. So… pour yourself a cup of Cafe Britt Coffee. Check out the Cafegraphia or Coffee Art that Saul Bolanos
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By Manuel Valdes
Special to The Seattle Times
ALAJUELA PROVINCE, Costa Rica — Mauro Zelaga has been coming to Costa Rica from neighboring Nicaragua for 20 years to pick coffee beans. Last December was his sixth time coming to Rodrigo Vargas’ farms.
Harsh economic conditions in his country have fueled a massive migration to the more stable and prosperous Costa Rica. A guerrilla fighter in
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By Manuel Valdes
Special to The Seattle Times
SAN JOSÉ PROVINCE, Costa Rica — Roberto Naranjo and his wife, Victoria Zúñiga-Naranjo, shake their heads when they remember life during the coffee crisis in the late 1990s.
The Naranjos had to choose between buying farming equipment and paying workers. They had to choose between maintaining their land and buying fertilizer. And debt mounted.
Then
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