Certified Organic, Fair Trade Coffee from Southern Costa Rica

I really appreciate hearing from the Southern C.R. newsletter readership and last month I was blessed by a request from a couple (Gregg and Cheryl Butler) from Southern California’s on more information on organic coffee farms in our region here in El Valle de El General. I was already planning to include some articles on organic farms and was not sure if I needed to include several farms in one issue or include a farm in an issue at a time so I asked Mr. Gregg about it and he mentioned that he would appreciate a farm per issue over the next several issues. That suits me perfect as the most difficult thing of this whole newsletter is finding content. I hate reading stuff I sense has been copied and pasted and while sometimes I do use helpful content I try to build my story around it and not just copy and paste. If you haven’t noticed before,J I love pictures and as the old saying goes, “pictures say more than a thousand words” and that is why I use such large pictures in my newsletters. I don’t consider myself a writer much less an editor so I need to let pictures carry the message for me! And thank you so much for your patience in putting up with my grammar and spelling errors! So in this issue we will include the story of Pablo Granados, his farm, family and organic coffee operation. I believe you will agree with me that Mr. Pablo is definitely a coffee revolutionist, especially when you understand the difficulties in raising anything organic within a tropical rainforest! (As my pastor Richard says, “Southern Costa Rica is a Garden of Eden for the growth of everything, including mold, fungus, insects and weeds!”) With an average yearly rainfall of 230 ...