Yesterday on Wednesday the group gathered early in the morning to depart on an adventure that took 1:15 minutes to arrive. We changed coffee plantations at the last minute, but this particular plantation was run a woman who employs 7 people including herself, unless it is harvesting season in February when she employs 70 people. She recently won an award for the best coffee in Costa Rica which was published in the paper a few weeks ago. She reported after she won her distingished award the price for a pound of coffee she sold skyrocketed from $1.50 to up to $15! She had 32 hectacres where she planted her coffee on a farely steep slope of a mountain. She has been running her operations for about 10 years. She began with traditional coffee growing methods, then switched to an organic method, where the coffee plant is supposed to live for about 15 years as opposed to 4 or 5 using the traditional methods. She only did this for 3 or 4 years and then switched back to the traditional methods because her crops significantly decreased in production. Today we are going to go to plantation Britt, which is a big commercial coffee plantation that sells to buyers like Starbucks.