A family owned venture with origins in 1951 when with 44 Quakers to establish the Monteverde Community as a pioneering effort to build a peaceful, simple lifestyle. Joe Stuckey first visits his aunt who was an original settler in Monteverde, traveling to Costa Rica overland in 1957. This trip changed the Stuckey Family forever, with Joe returning many times to Costa Rica, eventually settling in Monteverde with his wife Jean in the 1970’s. In 1980 Finca Laguna Verde becomes dairy farm when Joe and Jean Stuckey move permanently to Monteverde with their family. With the economic base of the community being cheese, Finca LagunaVerde specialized comercial, conventional, diary farm, selling milk to the Monteverde Cheese Factory.

The journey to Regenerative Agriculture begins in 2018 when Joe and Jean’s daughter Sarah takes over the active management of the farm. Concerned about greenhouse gas emissions Sarah eliminates all chemical fertilizar on the farm in 2018, instead focusing on solid health and regeneration of the ecosystem.

In 2025 Finca Laguna Verde is becoming Monteverde Roots, a family owned Regenerative farm that is dedicated to healings the land through Regenerative Agriculture. Our goals are to achieve resilience to the effects climate change by restoring our soils, enhancing biodiversity. What was once only a diary farm now produces sustainably raised milk, organice coffee, organic gardens, and organic fruit. It incorporates other animals such as tilapia, rabbits, hogs and chickens in a closed loop production cycles.