In May/June 2025 the Rainforest Club Team started their efforts to plant coffee. Our previous blog post describes the start of the project . Despite the Brazilian Winter months between May and December with very little rain and colder weather we started our project, growing some seedlings as a test. Today, December 2025, we have been 6 months into the project From dried cherry to seedling Besides planting some seedlings, we expanded our knowledge by reading and learning about planting coffee....

The Rainforest Club is in a region, where the coffee plantations dominated this hinterland of Rio de Janeiro. The hilly landscape had been ideal to grow coffee, which became world renowned starting in the early 1800s. Historic remains of the infrastructure that connected the region to the port in Rio de Janeiro are still present, today. Close to the Rainforest Club are the "Túneis de Murineli," tunnels of a steam railway system, which was part of the  Estrada de Ferro Leopoldina . The train...

When I arrived in Murineli in November 2023, everything was new to me. Usually, I visited Andreia and Florian in Rio de Janeiro. We...