Monteverde Coffee Tour
To schedule a tour, visit cafedemonteverde.com
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Café de Monteverde was born in 1989 as an association of 12 families with deep roots in coffee, agriculture, conservation, and education. For over four generations, our families have grown, processed and roasted the best quality coffee in the Monteverde region, striving for harmony with the surrounding cloud forest.
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Coffee culture was first brought to Monteverde in the early 1930s by families from Costa Rica’s central valley. As descendants of that group of pioneers, we have treasured their legacy for years so we can share it with you today. We cover coffee production all the way from seed germination to ripe cherries, to processing as sun-dried beans, and roasting. Our main farm is located in Cañitas, close to the Monteverde Cloud Forest, where we also roast and monitor quality in our cupping laboratory. To date, we have continued diversifying production by maintaining an organic vegetable garden, raising goats, pigs, and hens, and conserving half of the land on this farm as forest, allowing for a balance between production and nature conservation. In 2008 we opened our LIFE Monteverde educational programs on sustainable production, bringing together our passion for coffee, our experience in agriculture and education, and our appreciation for the importance of educating future generations and coffee lovers of all ages. We invite you to join
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The tour begins with the history of Coffea arabica in its local economic, environmental and social context and the importance of coffee in the area’s development. Before delving deep into the world of coffee, we explore how a coffee farm can practice sustainability and preserve its cultural legacy by combining coffee farming and food production. The animals on our farm also help provide organic fertilizer for the coffee field and are a source of energy. You can pet and feed goats, operate a human-powered grass cutter, cuddle a baby pig, and try fresh herbs from our garden! As part of the tour, you also walk through primary and secondary forest, where we often spot sloths, hear a loud bellbird or identify many endemic plant and tree species, even native relatives of the coffee family, Rubiaceae. The rest of the tour is dedicated to learning about the coffee process, including seed germination, care of the plant, harvesting, processing, and roasting. We germinate our own seeds, carefully selected from over five varieties of Coffea arabica. Before a plant is able to produce coffee cherries, it must go through a preparation of up to 2.5 years. If a coffee plant is provided proper care, it can produce cherries for over 30 years! During harvest season visitors can harvest ripe cherries alongside workers who have years of experience manually picking high quality coffee cherries. We manually depulp coffee, wash it and lay it out to dry in the sun. However, Café de Monteverde has three different post-harvesting beneficio processes: natural process, honey process and fully washed process. This stage of natural fermentation adds different fruity, acid, and sweet notes the final cup. Once the fruit reaches the green bean stage, it is further sorted for quality and ready to store, ship or roast. The tour ends at the Monteverde Coffee Lab, our roasting and cupping facility, where you will taste five different coffee processes and roasts, allowing you to savor the nuances of each type. Although environmental and processing elements influence coffee flavor and aroma, roasting can enhance particular qualities. Throughout the tour, visitors learn how sustainability practices are incorporated into coffee farming. This includes mechanical weed management, preventative and biological pest control, minimizing use of synthetic fertilization, measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing erosion, conserving and treating water, maximizing use of renewable energy, proper waste management of byproducts of the coffee process, and educating future generations on sustainable agriculture.
Coope Santa Elena Café Monteverde Costa Rica
Coope Santa Elena High in the mountains of Costa Rica, some of the world's best coffee is grown, in harmony with nature. Coopesanta Elena, in the Monteverde region, is made up of 75 small coffee producers who are committed to growing their crops in environmentally friendly ways. In cooperation with an American Fair Trade company, Montana Coffee Traders (montanacoffeetraders.com), Café Monteverde has established a solid reputation for its quality coffee and continues to give back to the community through environmental and educational programs.
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Monteverde Coffee Farm Tour in Costa Rica
Join Marti from Down the Wrabbit Hole - The Travel Bucket List as she and her family explore a Costa Rican coffee farm and learn about coffee roasting at the local coffee lab in Monteverde. To read the post, visit:
Monteverde Coffee
Café de Monteverde is an association of eleven local families in Monteverde, Costa Rica, with over four generations of experience producing high-quality Arabica coffee in harmony with nature.
Visit us at cafedemonteverde.com to read more about us.
Call us at 506-2645-7550 or email info@lifemonteverde.com to book one of our daily coffee tours!
Coffee Tour Don Juan Monteverde
Tour de café, tour de chocolate y demostración de caña de azúcar, 3 actividades en una sola visita , para aprender de cultura y ademas degustar de nuestros excelentes productos.
Visítenos en Monteverde Costa Rica.
Life Monteverde Farm
A bird's eye view of the of the Life Monteverde coffee farm!
Cafe Monteverde Tour
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Monteverde, Costa Rica (Coffee Plantation - Cafetal) pt3
The guide speaks a little English in this one.
Here we get told how the coffee is picked (it gets picked in 3 different moment of the season). We also get shown the difference between beans that are ready and arent ready to be picked. And we get asked back to the ranch to finish the tour.
En este el guía habla un poquito de Ingles.
Aquí nos cuenta como se coge el café (se coge en 3 momentos diferentes durante la temporada). También nos ensena como luce el grano cuando está listo. Y nos piden regresar al rancho para finalizar el tour.
Monteverde, Costa Rica (Coffee Plantation - Cafetal) pt1
Here we are being told facts about the coffee and the differences in coffee compared to other countries.
Aquí nos cuentan información sobre el café y las diferencias en el café comparado a otros países.
Monteverde, Costa Rica (Coffee Plantation - Cafetal) pt4
Here our guide Christian has samples of coffee beans in different drying and roast processes, and gives us a bit more info about the coffee.
Aquí nuestro guía Cristian tiene muestras de granos de café en sus procesos de secar y tuestes, con más información sobre el café.
Coffee tour on a small farm near Monteverde, Costa Rica
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The interviewer (Marianne) talks with the owner in Spanish, with explanation in Dutch (Marianne and Fred) and English (Fred)
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