First Coffee of The Season

Yesterday we started picking coffee.  In the rain.

The coffee harvest starts during the rainy season, so the folks who pick the coffee work in the rain.  Generally the coffee pickers are Gnobe Bugle Indians who come down from the “Comarca” in the mountains to pick coffee during the season.  Since we have such a small farm, our picking is generally done by our Gnobe Bugle farm workers friends from church, and our local Gnobe neighbors.  It gives them a chance to pick up some extra money, and we like keeping it “in the family” of locals.

We have exceptional coffee this year!  Big, healthy cherries.  This is our third coffee harvest from our little finca, but it is by far the best coffee we have produced, the result of a lot of work by our worker and my wife, Nikki.

Throughout our married life, whenever I gave Nikki a plant I’d say, “Here dear, it’s yours, but don’t touch it!”  Now she turns out to be the agriculturalist!

In addition to coffee our little farm grows bananas, plantains, oranges, lemons, yuca, and a variety of other local vegetables.

If you are interested in coffee check out this page on my BeautifulPanama.com Web site http://www.beautifulboquete.com/jaguar_java.htm