A Triple Win for Peru’s Rain Forest This story is from the 2019 November/December Arbor Day Foundation Newsletter and updated on October 1, 2021. Sign up for the Arbor Day e-news to get updates right to your inbox. East of the great Andes Mountains and west of the Amazon Basin lies an area of Peru known as the highland jungle. It is a land of steep slopes with fertile soil and temperatures that are ideal for coffee plants. This remarkable place is…
The Arbor Day Coffee program was founded more than 25 years ago to support shade-grown coffee practices in Central and South America.…
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought challenges to everyone. As they say, we are alone in this together. Yet coffee continues to bring us together on a global scale and reminds us that the entire…
HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS of Honduras, Rain Forest Rescue® donations are having a multitude of positive impacts. As always, they are promoting environmentally friendly shade-grown coffee that reduces chemical inputs and saves overstory trees…
Situated high in the mountains of northern Nicaragua is a small town with a reputation for producing some of the best quality coffee in the country. More than half of Nicaragua’s coffee comes from…
Guest post by The Coffee Chronicler. Most people never really think about it when they are gulping down their morning cup of Joe or takeaway latte, but coffee is a fruit. Today coffee usually…
From melting glaciers to larger and more frequent forest fires, climate change is affecting the world in which we live. Tropical trees and coffee shrubs are among the living things influenced by the changes…
Great coffee starts with great beans, but harvesting beans requires energy, energy that releases carbon. There are so many people involved from seed to cup that it makes it crucial now more than ever…
“My children, my friends and my trees will speak for me.” This quote is etched in the tombstone of Finca Padilla — the founder of Finca El Triunfo farm, one of Guatemala’s oldest coffee…
Arbor Day Coffee is grown by farmers who are committed to using sustainable agroforestry management practices on their farm. Agroforestry is a land use management system where trees or shrubs are grown around crops…