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The coffee plantation is one of the places that most benefits from all the sustainable projects at Selva Negra. It receives benefits from the top soil that is created from the manure of the stables and the cattle ranch. The organic fertilizer that is made up of all the waste in all the divisions of the estate from the rotten fruit in the fruit patch, to the leftovers in the resort and employee kitchens. The coffee plantation also benefits from the mulch that is created from the prunings of the gardens at the resort and the trees in the plantation itself. We believe that much of the quality of the Selva Negra coffee is due to the sustainable works at the plantation. We find it very important to return to the soil as many nutrients as possible. One of the projects that we are currently trying to undertake is purchasing manure from many of the cattle ranches in Nicaragua to use throughout the estate. We have found that there is no need for use of pesticides or herbices in the plantillos where we have been using manure as top soil for a couple of seasons. This, of course, goes a long way to our efforts of converting the entire estate to organic coffee. |
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