Stay at a Magnificent Working Coffee Farm
The class takes place on-site at the farm of the Hartmann family, personal friends of Boot Coffee and third generation coffee farmers known throughout Panama. Their farm will be your classroom. In addition we will travel to Finca La Mula and Finca Sophia, the breathtaking, spectacular award winning Geisha farms of Willem Boot and partners. In addition, we will tour the recently planted Finca La Cabra, the newest member of our family of Geisha farms. You will stay in a national forest preserve in western Panama near the border with Costa Rica; a stopover point for countless species of migratory, brilliantly-colored birds. Ornithologists and entomologists come here from all over the world to study the beautiful natural wildlife. Wake up and see gorgeous, healthy coffee trees. Outside of our rustic lodge you see a canopy of lush, green native forest trees, with birds flitting from branch to branch.
The course is very hands-on and covers coffee farming, harvesting, processing, roasting, and cupping, with a different emphasis for each course.
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From Harvest to Process to Roasting to Cupping
The course takes place during the last part of the main harvest and at the beginning of the harvest of our high elevated Sophia and La Mula Geisha farms With access to dozens of different lots being prepared and finished, there will be an emphasis on harvesting, processing and cupping in this class. Each day will include a tasting session and discussion featuring fresh-crop coffees; it’s a real master class for coffee buyers and anyone looking to truly understand the quality parameters of green coffee.