We are constantly maintaining our coffee trees every day throughout the year. Our Agriculture engineers work in investigations and supervision of the coffee plantation watching over hundreds of workers to insure quality controls in the fields.

FEBRUARY
We work on cutting back the trees and renewal. Cutting back on the trees renovated the crop and provides only healthy branches to grow the next season's crops. We also renovate by replanting trees that have been damaged.

MARCH
In March we start the first fertilizing segment of the year. We will traditionally utilize 100% organic materials combined with chemical fertilizers to add to the soils already healthy blend of compounds that create the perfect balance for the coffee trees. Our scientists study the ground samples and determine how much of what materials we need to use. Some of the things we use are, chicken manure, calcium carbonate, dolomite calcium and blends of bi products from the peeling and fermentation process.

APRIL
April brings the first rains after our summer season and we prepare the soil for the water drainage. Also in late April comes the first stage of the flowering process brining the plantation into a festive time and filling the air with an incredible aroma that smells like jasmine flowers. After the first flowering the coffee tree starts to bear its fruit and like human women it takes 9 months to come to fruition.

MAY
With the May showers and the first heavy rains of the year we start to replenish the soil with minerals that are lost in the run off of the water. We also add foliates to the leave structure protecting the leaves and also giving the plants more nourishment. With the rains come out the pesty bugs of the spring that attack the healthy new leaves and so we add just a shot of bug spray to slow the attack of the voracious pests.

JUNE
June brings the new planting season and all areas that were readied for new plants in February are now replaced with seedlings that will take 2 ½ years to produce their first crops.

JULY
Applying a new load of organic fertilization and another round of foliates helps to protect the plants during the mini summer of July that we get every year in Costa Rica.

AUGUST
During the month of August we start having lots of rain and with the rain comes humidity at ground level and the absorption of water is slowed because the ground is soaked and at capacity and so the trees become week. This creates the need to constantly be watching over the trees and giving them maintenance for the different diseases that attack the plants.

SEPTEMBER
We sit and wait for the crop to come in and are checking on it constantly. September is also the month for re-fertilizing the new trees that were planted in June.

OCTOBER
The crop is just starting to come to the picking stages and it is necessary to pick off the first few ripe cherries because they will limit the strength of the tree from ripening the rest of the fruit on time. .

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER - JANUARY
We start the production of picking and milling coffee and are helped by over 3,000 temporary workers who help pick the festive crop. We work over 15 hours per day during these months and don't even stop for Christmas. It is imperative to pick the coffee as it ripens and not wait for it to fall to the ground because of over ripening. We wait for the coffee cherry to become a crimson red color and then gently pull it from the tree.