The environment is one of the main issues for the Santa Eduviges Group. Since a few years ago we have been working with long term strategies that help conserve the soils, our most precious natural resource. This is possible through correction to diminish the acidity of the volcanic soils and make available mineral elements that otherwise couldn¹t be absorbed by the coffee plant.

The right quantity of organic material in the soil is mantained, through crops, through the covering of the soils and the inclusion of coffee BROZA that is treated with californian worms and GALLINAZA, which enrich the microbial population, which brake down the soil minerals for better assimilation of the plant. Likewise through the use of leguminous shade plants, like araquis in areas where the sun light exceeds daily an average of five hours, we maintain optimal temperature levels for the fruit growth, in a slow way in order to avoid fast metabolic processes that diminish the quality of the final taste.
In higher altitudes it is the clouds that bring natural shade, and the plantation is completely exposed to sunlight.

Only high quality coffees that are easily adapted to the climatic conditions of the area are used, which come from certified SAN POL seeds, that come from our own farms. Our farms consist of 20 year old plants, and every year a 5% is renewed, and a 12.5% is pruned. This assures always a young TISSUE that responds well to the pruning, absorb the fertilizers in a better way, tolerate better the plague and disease attacks, which assure that the cropps don¹t vary their output more than a 10% every year.