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Flowering, stock status and transition to organic farming

4/22/2020

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E-mails are regularly sent to our contacts. We give below links to these messages which give the main news about us for the month of April 2020. The texts are in French, sorry for this inconvenience.

Flowering and transition to organic farming (22 avril 2020)
http://static-promote.weebly.com/share/115c8c1f-54e7-420f-a74b-6d1e3eed7d97

Out of stock and waiting for a good rain (6 avril 2020)
http://static-promote.weebly.com/share/1f512896-facc-4626-85f6-b478ed543c76

News in brief (1er avril 2020)
http://static-promote.weebly.com/share/547b634c-c265-4b53-b188-188156cffd28

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Flowers ... even earlier than last year !!!!

2/8/2020

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It never rains in January February, except ...

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Last year it rained in late February, which was already very unusual. But this year it was at the end of January that we had a very heavy rain. We first thought, as we just finished harvesting, that it would not be enough to make the coffee bloom. We had to quickly become disillusioned: partial flowering is taking place, which implies a start to harvest already in September and uneven ripening which will lengthen the harvest time.

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Fortunately, this does not affect the quality of the coffee and does not prevent us from appreciating the beauty of these flowers, the work of the bees and the unusual simultaneity of the white flowers of the coffee with the orange flowers of the Poro Gigante, a tree which, apart from shade, has the particularity of providing nitrogen to our coffee plants.


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The harvest 2019-2020 is over

1/21/2020

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Due to unusual weather in 2018 (see below the news of flowering), the harvest was long (almost 3 months), but less abundant, especially for the new Obata variety whose growth is slower than planned.
The harvest was further complicated by the fact that I blocked my back on December 17 and, after 3 weeks of almost total immobility, I am in a slow recovery phase. I had to give the instructions from my bed and count on Viviane to go get the coffee sacks with the pick-up, help the employees for humidity measurements, pay them etc. She therefore deserves to appear with our employees and pickers in the photo below. The team is not complete because, given the circumstances, the end of harvest aperitif was improvised at the last minute.

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As I have not been able to go to the plantations for more than a month, this will be the only illustration of this message. More info when I can go back to the coffee trees.
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Purchase in Euros

1/21/2020

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Taking advantage of a forced period of rest and the opening of an account in France, an accessory site was created to allow purchases directly in euros (click here)
Some precisions :
  • The prices are 8 euros for the ground or grain bag of 350 g (9 euros for Obata) and 21 euros per kg (24 euros for Obata).
  • Caturra, Costa Rica 95 and Obata are all varieties of ARABICA.
  • No shipping costs for orders over 40 euros. For lower orders, the shipping costs are 10 euro. Shipments only for mainland France.
  • Plan your puchase well in advance. Shipping willo normally be ona within a week, but in rare cases it could take a ew more days.
  • To buy different items, you must return the purchase page. To do this, click on "DESCRIPTION" of the product, then on "Poursuivre les achats".
  • To return to purchases from the basket, click in the cross on the right at level of the logo.
  • In special cases, including orders from countries other than France or Switzerland, an order by Email is also possible.
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Good harvest 2019-2020

12/28/2019

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We are in full harvest and the quality is there.
We pass several times to harvest only the ripe grains and will not finish the harvest before mid-January, if not at the end of January. As shown in the photos below, the ripening is very variable from one coffee tree to another and it is not easy to select only the very ripe beans.
Transition to organic farming delayed by a few months
Last year, we had already noticed dark spots on some coffee trees, a sign of the presence of a fungal disease, anthracnose. This year, a very virulent form of this disease has taken hold and we have decided to postpone the 3-year transition period by 6 months which will allow us to obtain organic farming certification. The disease being well established, and affecting moreover our new vanilla plantations, it seemed to us prudent to envisage one, perhaps two conventional treatments in alternation with the treatments recognized by organic farming that we have already started to use .
This disease does not affect the quality of the coffee in any way but could greatly reduce the yield either directly or indirectly by the size of the affected branches or the elimination of coffee trees too affected to avoid the spread of spores.

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Diversification and possible conversion to organic farming

12/27/2019

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With the 2,500 plants planted in 2019, OBATA is the majority in the plantation. The resistance to "rust" of this variety makes it possible to envisage a reconversion in organic culture, all the more necessary given the diversification in progress. We hope to be able to move in this direction from 2020.

History: coffee farmer ... by chance

The purchase of the 5-hectare property in 2012 was intended to build a small second home on land and also test the possibility of growing vines in the tropics. The land was already planted with coffee on about 4 hectares, but the sellers had assured us that we would have no obligation to take care of it, one of their employees taking care of everything in exchange for the money from the sale to the local cooperative. The employee in question having been dismissed shortly after on justified grounds, we found ourselves alone and without agricultural knowledge at the head of 4 hectares of coffee. So we looked for one employee, then two, and asked for support from the cooperative's agricultural engineers. Gradually more comfortable, we bought the machines to produce our own coffee and decided to export it to Switzerland where we continue to spend 6 months a year. As for the secondary residence, it became the main residence during the 6 months that we spend in Costa Rica.
Youg cocoa plant
Vanilla cuttings ready to plant
Insects hotel


Diversification: vanilla and cocoa

Although the feasibility was tested during a trip to Thailand, we gave up on vine planting due to the difficulty of officially importing seedlings to Costa Rica. The fall in the price of coffee and various discussions with followers of organic farming or permaculture have led us to question the model of monoculture coffee that we inherited. After two months of reflection in the company of an intern, Léo Zoppi, we decided to plant vanilla, cocoa and many species of trees which will serve as stakes, wind protection and to provide shade for the various plantations. During the months of June and July, in addition to the 2,500 Obata coffee trees, we planted 250 cocoa trees, 1,000 hibiscus (protection against the wind between 0 and 3 m), 400 Gliricidia Sepium (future stakes for vanilla and shade for cocoa) and a good fifty trees of various species (protection against the wind and shade). The first vanilla plants (around seventy) were planted in July 2019.
During his internship, Léo had built a first insect hotel and we intend to build others soon in order to encourage the presence of various species near our plantations, including, hopefully, cocoa pollinating insects.
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We already had a first flowering

3/29/2019

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The rain that caused this flowering was not enough to make all the coffee bloom. We wait for the next rain because, especially with the wind that blows regularly these days and dries the morning dew, the buttons ready to hatch can dry up.
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Lower prices for coffee sold in Costa Rica

10/26/2018

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We decided to sell our coffee in 500 g bags instead of 350 g as it was the case so far and offer it, ground or grain, at the price of 4'500 colones, which also corresponds to a price drop of 10%.

The bag of 3 kg (grain only) is also more advantageous since it is offered at the price of 22'000 colones.

In the region Atenas/Escazù, the coffee can be orderd via the contact form and delivered without charges. For other regions please contact us.

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The 2017-2018 harvest is also for sale by kg

9/30/2018

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Our two varieties of pure Arabica coffee (Costa Rica 95 and Caturra/Catuaï) are now on sale:
  - in sachets of 350 g at the price of 8.50 (in grain or ground)
  - in bags of one kg (grain) at a price of 22.-

The Caturra variety (mainly Caturra and a small proportion of Catuaï) is recommended to prepare "filter" coffee or with Italian or piston (bodum) coffee makers, whereas the Costa Rica 95 variety is recommended for espresso type preparations.
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Presentation of Café ARACARI at the "Vogue" of Carouge

9/1/2018

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Café ARACARI is at the "Vogue de Carouge".
Come and enjoy our coffee.

Saturday 1st of september 10h-21h30
Sunday 2nd of  september 10h-19h

Directly from PRODUCER to CONSUMER
Our stand is located near the entry of the "Mairie de Carouge"


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