Our friends at D.R. Wakefield have recently returned from a trip to Costa Rica and so we’ve taken their recommendation to bring you this coffee from the CoopeDota cooperative in the Dota area.
This cooperative has been building Casa de Alegria’s or Houses of Happiness where travelling workers can safely leave their children to be fed, educated, and looked after whilst the parents are working in the fields.
Agrotourism is a part of life here as well, with farm tours that are arranged on their 1984 tractor which has impressively been converted to zero emissions using a system that removes pollutants from the air and turns it into fertilizer. Furthering environmental sustainability, CoopeDota have a programme to turn the cherry into fertilizer as well. They are the first carbon neutral producer in Costa Rica (earned in 2011) and have decided they want to be carbon positive and remove other people’s pollution too.