Finca Santa Barbara
In 1999, we made a personal commitment to our longstanding philosophy that stresses a blend of sustainable coffee cultivation with social responsibility. In the Boquete region of Panama, we purchased 39.5 hectares of property that was used to graze cattle for the past 80 years and renamed it Finca Santa Barbara (after Rogers Family Company, co-founder, Barbara Rogers.)

Although we faced a landscape stripped bare of almost all plants, we refurbished the soil
(using 12 million earthworms), planted 82,200
coffee trees, became a certified organic farm, and produced our first harvest in 2003.

We also reforested at least five hectares of the property with native trees that once flourished before the cattle arrived almost a century ago. You can see the difference in the before and after pictures of our farm's tiny farmhouse above. Together with our farm's small area of surviving old growth forest, these new trees add up to 10 hectares of original habitat to be preserved forever in a natural state. Most astonishing, the local village of Jaramillo has reported to us that their supply of clean spring water has actually reemerged where previously it had dried up.

Finca Santa Barbara serves to act as tangible proof of how a parcel reclaimed from barren fields can be made over into its original rainforest, grow great quality trees, and yield a superb coffee. Indeed, now many government and agricultural education groups are touring the farm to learn more about how, according to the World Bank, "When grown properly, coffee is one of the rare human industries that can actually restore the Earth’s health."

Try it yourself, your very own taste of the 100% Organic Private Reserve, Finca Santa Barbara coffee!

Finca Las Brujas
Our newest, wholly-owned, coffee farm we purchased recently is also located in Panama and is called Finca Las Brujas (the witches!). Here we are growing fifteen hectares of certified organic coffee, three hectares of organic tea, and two hectares of experimental products such as exotic spices for our tea products.

Rancho Quilco
We purchased this 150 hectare farm, located in Chiapas Mexico, recently and have converted it to organic. It's in an area called "Sinai," where we also built a school in partnership with Costco in Mexico through our innovative Community Aid program. This is the farm where we'll be planting the first trees in our 100-Year Tree Planting" Program.