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

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

But so can shade-grown coffee, eggs en cocotte and lawyers pushing strollers.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2016

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

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey