Panama Coffee Harvest in Full Swing

Coffee harvest in Boquete is in full swing, and what beautiful coffee!  This is our third coffee harvest from our little finca and my wife is pleased and proud as the “old timers” she meets taking her coffee to sell at Sitton oooo and ahh at her coffee.  Ours was an old farm that had been let go and it won’t be until next year that we should reach full production.

If you’d like to see photos of the full coffee cycle visit my page at http://www.beautifulboquete.com/jaguar_java.htm

When you buy coffee you are making concious consumer choices that have wide reaching impact.  On cruises when I lecture about our “Vanishing Rainforest” I point out the comparison between the mass market Brazilian robusta coffeegrown on vast farms hacked out of Amazon rainforest, and the gourmet, high-altitude Arabica coffee from Panama.  Not only does our coffee taste better, it is better for the environment. 

For comparison, here’s a Brazilian coffee farm and a Boquete coffee farm.

  

And here’s a Brazilian coffee picker and a Boquete coffee picker.