Alejo Castro Kahle, his mother Vivian Kahle, and father Fernando Castro Jiménez run a family-run coffee farm. The family has operated the Volcan Azul micro-mill jointly for 15 years, and both sides have been involved in Costa Rica's coffee business since the 19th century.
On the slopes of the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica, the family grows some of the purest coffees in the world under the "F.C.J. Volcán Azul" brand. Planting coffee trees on extremely fertile volcanic soil above 1500 meters above sea level (SHB) is the first step in the manufacturing process today. It culminates with the rigorous preparation of the export-quality beans after a painstaking process at the coffee mill.
The heirs of Don Alejo C. and Don Wilhelm currently seek to add the value of conservancy of natural resources to the values of quality that our founders left behind by acquiring extensions of natural rainforests for their preservation and protection. These figures represent the modest steps one family has taken to lessen global warming and air pollution. "This is the contribution we want to make to mankind, this is the new awareness we want our future generations to inherit" .
Since the 1980s, the two families have worked together to acquire over 1,500 hectares of rainforest for ecological preservation in areas where they grow coffee and in the Osa Peninsula, a region in the southern part of Costa Rica that is known to contain 2.5% of the Earth's biodiversity. The family places a high priority on the conservation of natural resources, which is why they are dedicated to protecting vast extensions of tropical rainforest.
Working with this eco-aware family that is helping to lessen the effects of global warming makes us proud.
