Our friend Edwin Salas owns a coffee farm near Atenas, a small city located an hour NW of San Jose. He offered us the history of the cooperative as well as economic and social benefits of the cooperative for the area.
Members can buy everything on credit and then pay after the next harvest.
Various companies then venture to the cooperative to purchase 150 lb burlap bags of coffee to roast. Edwin is currently involved in a company that sells enzymes which restore the water-waste to usable conditions.