How to Make a Ginger Latte

People are always curious about our little coffee farm and the processs of growing and harvesting coffee. So here’s a coffee primer that hopefully will help you appreciate the cup you are savoring! Coffee growing has long been a way of life in Boquete, Panama. Coffee growing in Boquete has been like grape growing in Napa. Boquete has many microclimates, again similar to Napa, and this produces coffee beans with different taste characteristics. The real estate boom in Boquete has caused vast coffee fincas to be sold off for real estate development. It is imperative that some of the traditional Boquete way of life be preserved. Coffee was first brought to Boquete over 100 years ago by a retired English sea captain who met and married a Panamanian. All of our coffee is shade grown, high altitude (4,000 feet), and grown in an environmentally sensitive way. treating our workers fairly. Our family farm is high on the slopes of Volcan Baru, our local volcano that last showed any activity 500 years ago, but has left behind wonderful volcanic soil. The soil, altitude, and rainfall combine to make an area for excellent coffee growing. Coffee blooms twice a year within a few months, so you have two crops growing simultaneously, which leads to a long harvest season. Coffee flowers smell like orange blossoms, so during the bloom the farm is wonderfully fragrant.