Costa Rica El Cedral

Santa Maria de Dota is home to one of Costa Rica’s finest cooperatives, Coopedota. CoopeDota strives to maintain a diversified business model selling roasted coffee for national consumption, operating a coffee shop and hardware store, and providing guided tours of coffee farms. CoopeDota is also recognized as the world's first carbon neutral coffee producer. Their mill is specifically designed for sorting high quality micro-lots, which helps to improve quality, increase earnings from coffee sales, and strengthen producer livelihoods.