Costa Rica imports 100% of its corn and soybeans. NutriTicos co-op members get rendered animal feed, cooking fuel, and soil amendments at half the price — produced from Costa Rica's own waste streams, priced for family farms.
The co-op exists to put industrial-parity feed and fuel in the hands of small farmers. Every member receives:
The financial picture: a typical 5-hectare coffee farm using the full closed-loop cascade — 45 pigs, 315 chickens, BioHive on-site, biochar-fertilized coffee — roughly doubles net annual income relative to coffee-only operation. Full farm-model assumptions on the farm model section of the homepage.
Smallholder and family farmers operating in Costa Rica's Southern Pacific corridor — Puntarenas, Osa, Quepos, Garabito, Pérez Zeledón, and surrounding cantones. If you are farther from Uvita, apply anyway; the co-op expands as the network expands, and early applications inform which region opens next.
The co-op is for working farms — coffee, cacao, pig, poultry, dairy, mixed — not for hobbyists or real-estate holdings. There is no minimum farm size, but operations that raise animals (or plan to) will get the most out of the feed and fuel offerings.
On timing: the plant is being built, not yet in production. Membership applications are being accepted now for the first-cohort review, which closes when the plant is commissioned. Apply now and you go into that first review. If you'd rather wait, the form will stay open.
Use the form to start your membership application. Tell us where your farm is, what you grow or raise, and what you'd want from the co-op in the first year. We respond within 3 business days. Every application gets a real human reply, not an automated reject.