A year ago my wife and I spent a week at the Down to Earth Coffee Plantation in Dota/Costa Rica. While I have been trained to roast green coffee beans I had no idea how coffee was grown or harvested. We learned about everything from planting seeds to transplanting, picking, processing, drying and milling (removing…
Category: Costa Rica
First Impressions – Driving in Costa Rica
(This article includes video) As my wife and I began the trip to Costa Rica, we decided to keep a journal to document our impressions. Like any situation, I had a mental image of what we were getting into. Boy, was I off! When we landed at the San Jose airport in Costa Rica, we…
The Trip to Down to Earth Dota Estate, Costa Rica
I understand how to take green coffee beans to the cup; roasting, grinding and brewing. What I wasn’t familiar with was how coffee went from soil to green beans. While talking about this on the Coffee Forum Matias Zeledon (costaricacoffee on the forum) introduced me to his plantation in Costa Rica. Down to Earth Dota…