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Keens Beans

100% Organic Arabica Coffee grown and processed in Costa Rica

After visiting Costa Rica for over 40 years, we decided to purchase property there.  We purchased a small coffee farm in the mountains just below the cloud forest at Monteverde.  It’s best feature was the view.  It looks down from 3600 feet to the Gulf of Nicoya, Nicoya peninsula, the Pacific Ocean and the oceanfront town of Puntarenas.  We must admit, the view is stunning.  We have spent the last four years revitalizing the existing coffee plants, terracing the mountainous land to control erosion, planting thousands of new coffee plants, planting indigenous shade trees and generally changing to an organic growing culture.  In our spare time we also renovated a small house on the property to live in.  We have entered into partnership with two other families who are also interested in the benefits of growing organically.  A family from Spain and a family of Ticos (a local term for Costa Ricans).  The Tico gentleman is a local pioneer in organic coffee farming, with well over a decade of experience.  The Spanish gentlemen started his organic coffee farm the year before we did.  The partnership has enabled us to build a new coffee processing and drying facility.  We were also able to incorporate the latest in water “low flow” technology, which has made us eligible for organic certification in processing as well as growing.

Keens Beans annually produces a small quantity of select, organic coffee beans.  Our organic beans are picked in January and February by hand.  The second step is carefully separating the fruit from the bean and sun drying the bean.  After a “resting” period of up to 45 days and some further processing, our green beans are shipped to the U.S. Green organic coffee beans are very stable and will retain their quality for many months.  However, once they are roasted they should be brewed within approximately three weeks or the flavor will be compromised.  We, therefore, roast your order immediately prior to shipping so you will have the best cup of coffee available.

Only about twelve percent of the coffee beans produced annually in Costa Rica are organic. Growing coffee organically is much more labor intensive and therefore substantially more costly. Farmers who use chemicals to grow their crops and control weeds are able to produce more beans per acre using less labor. That is a big incentive. However, chemically grown beans suffer in quality and the land they are grown on is eventually depleted.  Because of this, farmers who use chemicals also have problems producing annual crops that are of consistent quality.  We feel that there are many consumers in the United States whose priority is a superior cup of coffee, produced organically without chemicals, while protecting the environment and sustaining the land. Mother Earth truly needs all the help she can get.

The entire experience has been educational, enlightening, and has helped us integrate into the community.  We are looking forward to a long and rewarding future in Costa Rica.  All of us hope you will enjoy our coffee as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. 

Remember this is a seasonal product.  We are single estate growers and do not produce a sufficient quantity of coffee beans to sell year around.

Your order will be fresh roasted in Pensacola, Florida, and will be shipped immediately.

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