Our
Tree Farms
Together with our foresters we
have converted fifteen former cattle ranches totaling nearly 14,000 acres in Costa Rica into tropical hardwood tree farms.
Our farms are in an area of Costa Rica
where our species of precious tropical hardwoods flourish, three to ten miles inland from
the Central Pacific coast of Costa Rica, from Parrita south-east to the
border with Panama.
We chose these farms because they are in the heart of a
humid tropical area where our hardwood species thrive and they have the combination of
slopes and soil conditions required by our various hardwood species.
The annual rainfall in our
area is more than 120 inches per year, distributed mostly over a nine-month rainy season, from
April through mid-December. This ample rainfall allows our hardwood trees to grow rapidly
during the rainy season. And then during the three-month dry season, from mid-December through
March, the trees' growth slows, allowing the wood to lignify or harden. This is the climate where our selected
hardwood species grow the best.
Convenient access was another
major consideration in choosing our farms - to bring in workers, equipment and materials,
and to transport our harvests to market. We have good truck access to both Atlantic and
Pacific shipping ports for convenient shipping to North America, Japan and
Europe.
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