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Home / Coffee Origin Gallery / Doka Estate Visit

Coffee in parchment being raked and dried in the sun on the patio at Doka. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Doka Estate Visit

January 13, 2010 March 1, 2023

Here are some images from Barth’s visit to The Doka Estate in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.

The glorious Doka Estate owned by the Vargas family. Green coffee washing tanks in the foreground, drying patio adjacent, housing for harvesters just beyond the patio, and coffee and banana growing together on the hillside in the distance at 4500'. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Companion plantings of coffee and banana at Doka. The role of the banana is multi faceted. It helps protect the coffee trees from wind shear, it provides fruit for bird and other animals on the farm that build the nutrient budget of the system, it provides ample banana harvest alongside the coffee production, and once the banana is harvested, the plants are cut down and they fertilize the soil as they break down. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Seedling nursery of Caturra and Catuai coffee plants at Doka. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Late nineteenth century hydro powered gearing that drives the processing equipment in the mill at Doka. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Arnoldo Leiva, Export Manager of Doka, opening the gate that permits gravity flow to distribute coffee beans to the washing tanks. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Washing tanks for the beans after they have been stripped of their cherry. Photo by Barth Anderson.

Coffee in parchment being raked and dried in the sun on the patio at Doka. Photo by Barth Anderson.

The traditional, vibrant Costa Rican Oxcart that in some locations is still used to this day to transport coffee cherry to the mill. Photo by Barth Anderson.

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