{"product_id":"costa-rica-las-lajas-micromill-caturra-catuai-red-honey","title":"COSTA RICA | Las Lajas Micromill | Caturra \u0026 Catuai | Red Honey","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eOscar and Francisca Chacón are third-generation coffee producers, but the coffee is more than just in their family heritage: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eIt's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e in their hearts and souls as well. The couple is committed to quality and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003einnovation and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e are among the very first farmers in Costa Rica to produce Honey and Natural process specialty coffee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW172207553 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eEstablished by Oscar’s grandfather, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eDon \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eOscar Chacón Ugalde, the farm originally focused on a variety of agriculture types, consisting mostly of sugarcane and other subsistence crops\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e, with some \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eadditional\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e livestock. In the beginning, Oscar was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003efocused\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e providing food for his family to eat. It \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003ewasn’t\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e until the 1950s that Don Oscar began planting coffee, as a cash crop. Commercial coffee production was new to Costa Rica, and Don Oscar fell in love with coffee, slowly switching the focus of the farm to include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003emore and more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e coffee. What started on 3 hectares of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eland,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e has grown to over 50 hectares today. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr class=\"SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eIn 2005, after years of delivering their cherry to a cooperative\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e they decided to join the brand-new \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003emicromill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e revolution\" and buy their own \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003edepulper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e to have more control over the quality and the price they received for their lots\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003eNecessity \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003ebred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e more innovation for the family when an earthquake in 2008 wiped out electricity and water to their area during the harvest. Unable to run the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003edepulpers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW172207553 BCX0\"\u003e or to wash the mucilage off to produce Washed lots, Francisca took inspiration from her knowledge of African coffee production and quickly built raised beds on the property. 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