La Fortuna: North Fields Coffee and Chocolate Tour
Experience organic coffee and chocolate production at North Fields Coffee, a family-owned farm near Arenal Volcano, learning sustainable farming from passionate guides as you walk through plantations witnessing planting to roasting, participating in hands-on bean grinding and preparation, exploring traditional sugarcane processing and meeting farm animals, and enjoying a delicious tasting of fresh coffee, chocolate, and sugarcane with hotel pickup included.
Overview
Coffee, sugarcane and chocolate. Costa Rica’s three favorite things (and probably yours too after this tour).
Join us for a fun morning at a small family farm only 15 minutes from La Fortuna. You will see how everything is made the real way, with your own hands, and taste it all while it’s fresh.
What you’ll do:
- Pick coffee cherries and roast beans over an open fire
- Cut sugarcane with a machete and drink the juice seconds later
- Grind cacao by hand on a stone metate like the grandparents still do
- Eat warm chocolate you just made yourself
Lots of samples. Zero rush. Small group, maximum 12 people.
Included:
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in La Fortuna area
- Friendly local guide
- Fresh tropical fruit and homemade snacks
- Rain ponchos if the sky opens (it happens!)
Unique part: this farm is one of the last places near La Fortuna that still uses a 100-year-old wooden sugarcane press powered only by oxen. You can help turn it if you want!
Half-day tour, big smiles, happy stomach. Perfect for families, couples or anyone who likes good flavors.
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What's Included
- Hands-on chocolate making + plenty of chocolate tasting
- Fresh sugarcane juice straight from the press
- Coffee and/or herbal tea
- Bottled water
- Professional local guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (for hotels within 10 minutes of downtown La Fortuna)
- Tips/gratuities
- Pickup or drop-off from hotels farther than 10–15 minutes from central La Fortuna (for example, areas toward El Castillo, Lake Arenal, or farther)
Itinerary
This is the usual workflow of the tour
Pickup or meet at the farm If your hotel is within 15 minutes of central La Fortuna, we’ll pick you up at the time confirmed when you book. If you’re staying farther away (for example around Lake Arenal or El Castillo), you’ll drive yourself to the farm. The exact address and Google Maps pin will be on your voucher.
Welcome and quick intro Once the whole group is together (never more than 12 people), you’ll meet your guide—usually one of the family members—and get a cold drink and a piece of fresh fruit while everyone arrives.
Walk through the plantation You’ll stroll between coffee plants, cacao trees, and rows of sugarcane while the guide explains how everything grows in the shadow of Arenal Volcano.
Coffee – from plant to cup Pick red coffee cherries (when in season), see the old-fashioned depulping machine, learn how the beans are dried and roasted over a wood fire, and finally grind and brew your own cup.
Chocolate – hands-on Roast cacao beans in a clay pot, peel them by hand, grind them on a traditional stone metate, and mix your own warm chocolate with a little sugar or spices. Then eat it while it’s still hot.
Goodbye After about 2.5 hours total, we’ll drop you back at your hotel (if you had pickup) or you’ll head off from the farm. Tour usually ends around 11:30 am or 4:30 pm depending on morning or afternoon slot.
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