Sustainable Processes - Organic Fertilizer
	At the farm we require a lot of fertilizer, we try to do it our-self, at least most of it, by recycling as much as we can. We build compost bins that will hold about 25 tons of fertilizer, so far we have 7 of them, we have compost ready in 2 to 2.5 months. So we are able to produce more than 300 tons of fertilizer each year, all used for coffee. Usually here we recycle the coffee pulp, rice husk, algae from the lakes, garbage from the hotel and workers houses, weed, anything that we can find goes in here to be composted. Cow manure compost We have about 100 calf and we collect their manure together with pigs manure and have Californian worms that will de-compost this and make it into top soil. This is used mostly for the coffee nursery. This provides a good start for our new coffee plants. Flower compost At the farm we produce flowers, mainly mums, and there is cuttings that cannot be used in the flower business as well as flowers that were not sold and go bad, oh well, we decompose all those with African worms, they are slightly different, they are larger and eat faster and decompose this type of product better.

	Selva Negra Coffee Estate KM 140 Carretera a Jinotega Matagalpa, Nicaragua 011-505-2772-3883 coffeeinfo@selvanegra.com