Costa Rica and the Café Monteverde Service Project
With wicker baskets strapped around their waists, students from Friends School Haverford pick red and green coffee berries off coffee plants at Finca La Bella, in the San Luis Valley of Costa Rica. The coffee beans inside the berries are the livelihood of farmers in the valley.
The Corobici Indians originally inhabited the Monteverde area. It was settled in 1918 and named “Cerro Plano.” The San Luis Valley was settled in 1920. Quaker families from Alabama moved to Costa Rica in 1950 searching for a place where they could live a peaceful life style. They purchased 3,500 acres of land above Cerro Plano and named their new home Monteverde that translates to Green Mountain. In time they came to realize the importance of preserving the watershed. As a result they established the world renowned Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve.
Number Of Pages: 2 Type Of Document: PDF Author Of The Document: NA Date Published: 2006-10-00 Languages: English
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