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Coffee Bio
Our Jaguar Honey comes from Tarrazú, known as Costa Rica's coffee birthplace, and is produced at Beneficio San Diego. As its name suggests, it is a honey processed coffee: the cherry skin is fully removed, leaving only the mucilage on the parchment, which gives the beans a lighter, yellowish hue.
The honey process uses very little water and produces an acidity that falls midway between natural and washed coffees, with some of the qualities of a natural but less time and risk of over-fermentation.
Jaguar Honey is first and foremost a coffee with an environmental purpose: to protect the jaguar and its habitat, threatened by development, illegal hunting and deforestation. For every quintal sold, Volcafe supports Fundación Pro Zoológicos (Fundazoo), a Costa Rican conservation nonprofit responsible for several zoos and national parks.
Fundazoo bases its work on three pillars: research, habitat management and education.