Both Costa Rican coffee and chocolate can be discovered at North Fields Coffee, a charming family-run farm in La Fortuna.

Harvest time at the farm of Doña Tere, in the town of Cedral; a coffee tasting at Mercado. When it comes to coffee, Costa Rica has a robust profile: the country ranks 124th in the world in terms ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You know the Starbucks name, but have you seen the one coffee farm the company owns? It’s in Costa Rica. The Hacienda Alsacia Farm has been in existence since 1970.

The farm is located in the steep valleys of Los Santos, one of Costa Rica’s most-famous coffee growing regions. But almost none of the people picking coffee there are Costa Ricans. Instead ...

The route took me back to this stretch of Costa Rica I had been away from for three decades. I passed the entrance, saw that the finca still had the same name, and that it was still in existence – as ...

Many Costa Rican coffee farms are certified organic, meaning they avoid the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Instead, they rely on natural methods to maintain soil health and protect ...

Since coffee first took root along Costa Rica’s Central Valley in the late 1700s, small farms have played a big role in production, fostering mild, softly acidic beans on smallholdings rarely ...

(RTTNews) - Starbucks announced an expansion of collaborative coffee innovation network. The company added farms located in Guatemala and Costa Rica with future farm investments in Africa and Asia.