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Rainforest Alliance Certified
Colombia

11.16.2009

Despite Challenges, Colombian Farmers Embrace Sustainability

In October, Rainforest Alliance communications coordinator Katy Puga had an opportunity to travel to Florencia, Colombia and visit with coffee farmers seeking Rainforest Alliance certification.

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11.16.2009

Manos especiales que se preparan para producir cafés especiales

En Octubre, la coordinadora de comunicaciones para Amércia del Sur de Rainforest Alliance, Katy Puga, viajó a Florencia, Colombia y visitó a caficultores que trabajan para obtener la certificación Rainforest Alliance. Aquí, ella nos cuenta una experiencia realmente inspiradora...

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3.26.2008

Elite Flowers: Growing a Better Bloom

Robert Goodier is a communications coordinator for the Rainforest Alliance, based in our Guatemala City office. In February 2008, he traveled to Facatativá, Colombia to visit Elite, a flower farm that was recently awarded Rainforest Alliance certification. Here, he recounts the experience.

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12.7.2006

Did you hear the one about the biologist and the macaw?

We're sitting in a rancho in the middle of an exuberant tropical garden in Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, surrounded by about 50 conservationists from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

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12.5.2006

Travels in Colombia - part two

La Floresta is owned and operated by the extended Hortua family, who has worked for three generations on their small farm.

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