Further into the forested interior, Selva Negra Ecolodge hosts a range of tours of Matagalpa’s mountainous surrounds, starting with its own sprawling coffee farm. Learn to craft the perfect cup ...

Harvest season had just begun in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and the coffee plants stood ripe and ready. But there was no one working at many of the farms. Joaquín Solórzano, a coffee farmer and ...

One of those was Los Milagros, a estate of lush coffee fields perched high atop a mountain in central Nicaragua. In August 2000, the company that owned Los Milagros stopped paying workers their daily ...

The 30km drive from Jinotega to Portillo’s farm takes over two hours by jeep on a rough track. Every so often we pass a truck, piled implausibly high with coffee pickers.

Analysts say that the new laws in Nicaragua are having a visible impact on this year’s harvest. Carlos Fonseca, a consultant who works with more than 20 Costa Rican farms, said many of his ...

SAN DIEGO — Harvest season had just begun in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and the coffee plants stood ripe and ready. But there was no one working at many of the farms. Joaquín Solórzano, a coffee ...

San Diego – Harvest season had just begun in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and the coffee plants stood ripe and ready. But there was no one working at many of the farms. Joaquín Solórzano, a coffee ...