COSTA RICAN TIMES
Costa Rica News – SANTA MARIA DE DOTA, COSTA RICA—Eduardo Porras stands in the middle of his flatbed pickup truck, sweeping coffee in shades of red and maroon off the edge. The small fruit, encapsulating precious coffee beans, shower down into large wooden boxes that are tallied up and paid out to his family.
Mr. Porras, who works with his mother and two sisters, hopes his future children will one day join the family tradition of cultivating coffee. But sometimes, he says, he wonders if it will still be a viable business.
“The plants have been going crazy lately,” he says, describing changing weather patterns like weeks without rain during the traditional wet season, or deluges when it’s typically dry. Last year seemed to be 12 months straight
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