Plantation

The choice of the planting areas is made based on areas of sun exposure and where the hillside faces turn to the east and/or to the north, thus being the best locations for the cultivation of coffee. These areas are typically where the hydric resources are located, which resources were used in the past for cultivating the forest, humid or degraded, and are protected or enriched with the recovery vegetation.

Camocim farm is where the native plants are preserved; where the regenerated plants remaining from the old sub-forest provide a vegetation for wood, food source and protection for indigenous animals, green fertilization and shading for our current farming activities.

At the farm, there are a lot of species of bushes and fertilizing trees, like the “curindiba” and “pororoca” (after the fructification/food trinca-ferro and other birds), “bake-fish” (formidable for handling; after budding apiculture), “imbaúba” (big leaves are an inconvenience when they fall on the small plants of coffee), “brave-smoke”, “rosemary”, “quaresmeiras” (when accumulated)’ besides other species introduced to the environment such as: mamona, tefrósia, guandu (root directs for fertilizing coffee).

There is also the plantation of trees (agrosylviculture); Pink Jequitibá, Australian Cedar, Louro, Fel Pudo and Pink Ipê, real Palm (accumulated, in the imperfections of the coffee, in the areas of “abandonment” of the culture), avocado (through direct sowing; it occupies areas of peripheal windbreaks and center of holes), sugar cane Capim Anapier, besides the production of fruits for animal creation.