We visited the University of Georgia research station in Monteverde where students and researchers from different parts of the world stay for periods on time while they work on certain projects or investigations. The UGA also has community engagement activities. They collaborate with the local community to produce organic coffee and other crops. Members of the community grow coffee beans with organic practices and use sustainable ways to process and package the coffee to sell it to visitors. The coffee bags are made out of recycled and banana paper.
They benefit a lot from the university of Georgia, especially because the majority of their sales are from visitors of the university. Each community member profits accordingly to what he/she harvested.
Another prominent crop in the community is the sugarcane. The main reason why they grow it is that it is a very traditional plant and very typical to their culture. Once they harvest the sugarcane, they extract the juice using a trapiche (picture below). The sugarcane is inserted in the hole and two people push the edges of the long horizontal wood stick, making it turn around. The juice can be drank but it is also used to make a honey out of it.
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