Costa Rica: A Return to Origins

This blog will capture the experiences and learnings of our TWELVE Canadian participants.
Check back daily for updates and new postings.


Introducing a new Origin Experience program

Last February, the first group of Starbucks partners traveled to Costa Rica to take part in the pilot Origin trip. Less than a year later, another twelve Canadian partners have been awarded the same opportunity to visit, learn, harvest and truly experience life at our farms in Costa Rica. Follow along and learn from their daily adventures. Through this powerful first-hand experience, partners will be better able to understand and articulate ethical sourcing practices, quality standards and relationship with farmers. It will also help us create a network of passionate advocates to inspire customers and other partners, as well as serve as coffee leaders.


Wednesday, February 24, 2010



Ed Barker and Mark Chandler from the Earthwatch Institute sharing their work with us at Ernesto Chacon's farm in Terrazu. Our partnership started in 2007 and has had a significant impact on the sustainability of coffee farming. Earthwatch's purpose is to bring people and science together to motivate people to something to positively impact the world. Terrazu is one of the most highly productive coffee areas of the world, and it is a great testament to our partnership with Earthwatch that this has been achieved while limiting the negative impact on the earth by promoting environmentally friendly methods of coffee farming. We are fortunate to work with such a great organization, and the farmers who have opened up their farms to test how to increase coffee yields using natural and sustainable methods. "Green" coffee took on a whole new meaning with this visit!

Cindy GH
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