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Green Fact
Guatemalan Coffees are 98% shade grown.
This allows coffee beans to mature slowly, improving the attributes of body and acidity in the cup.
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Guatemalan Coffees are 98% shade grown.

The resulting coffee forest extends approximately 270,000 hectares and makes up 6.4 percent of the Guatemala’s forest cover.

Scientific research has demonstrated that agroforestry systems, like our shaded coffee, combines the goals of sustainable agriculture with environmental protection, benefiting water, soils and biodiversity and helping in diminishing the effects of global warming.

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