OUR COMPOST

To create a healthy compost we use:

  • Carbon

    Carbon

    Dry leafs, chiribiscos and parchment

  • Sugar

    Sugar

    Pulp

  • Nitrogen

    Nitrogen

    Green leafs

  • Protein

    Protein

    Alfalfa.

    Note: *We don't use animal waste (manure) because of its difficulty tracing back and controlling what the animal is being fed.

  • Water

    Water

  • Thermometer

    Thermometer

How to do it.

Once we have all the elements for the compost we have to pasteurize the mass. To achieve this we add water and cover the compost, we then wait until the temperature has reached between 55-60 C, then we open the compost and wait until the mass has reached room temperature. We repeat the process 5 to 7 times until we've killed all the bad microorganisms and have left the good ones alive, to make sure of this we do microscopic analysis for each batch.

We have 3 different ways to use and apply our compost:

  • Solid application directly to the soil around the plant trunk.

  • Liquid application applied to the the leafs of the coffee plant.

  • Liquid application applied directly to the plant trunk.

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