shade-grown

American  

[sheyd-grohn] / ˈʃeɪdˌgroʊn /

adjective

Horticulture.

1. grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.

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Etymology

Origin of shade-grown

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

Example Sentences

I love being romanced by their promises of protecting birds and treating their workers well with their shade-grown, pesticide-free beans.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022

In one project, they work with local village chiefs to cultivate shade-grown coffee as a business, a practice that can be done without inflicting a heavy toll on the forest.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2021

There was the extra incentive of certification from the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, which involved meeting criteria such as hunting bans, introducing FairTrade and organic practices and boosting habitat through shade-grown crops.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020

One afternoon last fall, I sat in the Free Speech Movement Café, on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, drinking a fair-trade, shade-grown coffee.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

It is wonderful how beauty perishes like a shade-grown p. 257flower before the sunlight of analysis. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey