We also process the pulp from other coffee facilities in the area to help supply our organic fertilizer needs and to help clean up the environment in our community. The pulp is processed with the organic wastes from our kitchens and tourist facilities, from the water treatment plant for the coffee facility, ash from the kilns and chicken manure. Earthworms then give a final treatment to this extremely high-quality organic fertilizer. We use the elixir from the earthworms and from fresh cow manure as foliar fertilizers and natural pesticides. The flame trees we have planted among the coffee rows feed innumerable birds and fertilize the soil with nitrogen. The bananas planted among the coffee trees feed many other species of wildlife. Birds and small mammals also feed on the small invertebrates that thrive on the high diversity of other plants living among the coffee. A living ecosystem, thick and healthy soils, and high nitrogen content are the result of our practices. Unlike traditional coffee plantations, our soils do not erode and are filled with stable nutrients. Unlike traditional coffee plantations, ours teem with life.

Finally, 95% of our land is used only for the conservation of primary forest. La Amistad is one of the largest private nature reserves in Central America. We protect the land from hunters and fires, but otherwise leave it untouched except for a small number of ecotourists and researchers. Large patches of forest between the coffee groves ensure that monkeys, dozens of other mammals and hundreds of species of birds live among the coffee trees. Our land is the gateway to La Amistad International Park and one of the few places where visitors can appreciate this immense but inaccessible ecosystem.