Recognizing consumer demand for organic coffee beans (and Fair Trade Coffee Beans), many coffee farmers have responded and started producing natural organic coffee beans, grown and harvested without chemicals or artificial fertilizers. The current push towards “green” living and environmentally friendly products has helped the organic coffee industry tremendously.
In recent years coffee has become a consumer driven product. As might be expected, the natural biodiversity of the coffee regions were also adversely affected. The deforestation and use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers eventually led to serious environmental issues including soil erosion plus chemical and pesticide contamination of both soil and water systems. Unfortunately, it was necessary to cut down the shade trees in order to produce sun cultivated coffee crops.Ĭoffee farmers also switched to artificial fertilizers and pesticides. To increase coffee yields, coffee producers put less emphasis on shade grown and organic grown coffee beans and began to produce “sun” cultivated coffee plants. The modern age brought many technical advances to coffee production and threatened the very existence of organic coffee farms. Things changed in the coffee industry during the last three decades of the 1900’s.
Historically, organic coffee plants were also fertilized organically by composting leaves and the natural pulp from coffee cherries. These shade grown organic coffee plants flourished under a natural canopy of larger indigenous trees, which in turn provided a natural habitat for birds and small animals that helped control the pest and insect population.
Most mountain grown organic Arabica coffee beans were also “shade” grown coffees. Natural Organic Coffee Beans – Mountain Grownįor centuries coffee beans were grown and harvested organically, without the use of pesticides, herbicides or other harmful chemicals.
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