{"id":58,"date":"2008-12-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anirama.com\/costarica\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-11-06T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:40:50","slug":"coffee-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/2008\/12\/29\/coffee-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Lesson on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Costa Rica Coffee Plantations by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3183201582\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3319\/3183201582_9d5a4ec43d.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Rica Coffee Plantations\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffee Plantations<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tour officially kicked off this morning with our guide, Paul, and bus driver, Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s primary adventure was a trip to the Poas Volcano. The hour long bus ride wound across the valley through three different cities, then up the volcano to 8800 feet, about a mile above the valley floor. Along the way we passed through miles and miles of coffee plantations. We learned a lot about this beautiful crop. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All coffee grown in Costa Rica for export must be Arabica.<\/li>\n<li>In the \u201830\u2019s (?) the government gave away land and coffee plants to families that wanted to start a farm. The goal was to create a major coffee industry, but to have it be owned by many citizens, not by a few large landholders or companies.<\/li>\n<li>The best coffee is grown between 4000 and 6500 feet elevation and it loves volcanic soil, making these slopes of Costa Rica ideal for the crop.<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica grades their coffee in three levels. Level 1 is the finest and commands the highest price. Level 3 is not allowed to be exported, and is generally what the Costa Rican population drinks. Level 2 is also exported, but is a lower grade than level 1. Much of Level 2 goes to Columbia and Brazil, where it is mixed with their lower grade beans to bring the overall quality up, and thus the price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tour officially kicked off this morning with our guide, Paul, and bus driver, Marcos. Today\u2019s primary adventure was a trip to the Poas Volcano. The hour long bus ride wound across the valley through three different cities, then up the volcano to 8800 feet, about a mile above the valley floor. Along the way <a href='https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/2008\/12\/29\/coffee-lesson\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,72],"tags":[89,93,105],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-dec-29-08","tag-coffee","tag-flora","tag-on-the-road","category-123-id","category-72-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}