Hacienda Alsacia . About 45 minutes north of San Jose, Costa Rica, at 5,000 feet above sea level, ... in a guided cupping at a fully decked-out Starbucks overlooking a waterfall.

The Hacienda Alsacia Farm has been in existence since 1970. Starbucks bought in the 2010s. Normally, Starbucks buys beans from coffee farmers, the company is not in the business of farming coffee ...

This eco-park oasis features five waterfalls, hiking trails, a cloud forest and a rainforest, an animal sanctuary with over 100 species of animals, ... The next stop is a tour of the Hacienda Alsacia ...

The Hacienda Alsacia variety is resistant to coffee rust, which since 2011 has caused billions of dollars in losses for producers in Costa Rica and other Latin American countries. Production ...

Starbucks announced today that it plans to extend its partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) and develop new academic programming at Hacienda Alsacia – the company’s global agronomy ...

The 46,000-square-foot hacienda is the public gateway to Starbucks’s surrounding research-focused coffee farm, where the java giant tests new growing techniques and develops better farming ...

SEATTLE — Starbucks has unveiled plans to develop a sustainability learning and innovation laboratory at Hacienda Alsacia in Costa Rica. Hacienda Alsacia is Starbucks’ global agronomy ...

The farm in Costa Rica, located next to Hacienda Alsacia, will also be designed to explore the use of mechanization, drones and other technologies to help support labor availability challenges ...