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  • Finca Santa Marta - a 45 acre organic vegetable and fruit farm in western Panama near the Costa Rican border

Finca Santa Marta

Buenos dias from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

My wife Kim and I are developing a 45 acre organic vegetable and fruit farm in western Panama near the Costa Rican border. Our farm has a km of frontage on the Rio Gariché. We are still part timers in Panama and travel back and forth from our home in Virginia. The project has been quite an adventure for the last 2.5 years.

We have 8 full time employees in Panama including a great Panamanian manager, Tino, who lived in the US for 28 years before returning to Panama to retire. He is a very active 65 year old guy who truly enjoys the challenges of helping us develop the farm.

Our goal is to grow a wide variety of organic vegetables, fruits and herbs and distribute them to retired gringos living in western Panama. Eventually we hope to have enough production to deliver once a week to Panama City as well. We also are working to grow organic free range chickens for meat and eggs and will add organic farm raised tilapia in the future. We are also planning to have training seminars at the farm to teach locals how to avoid the use of commercial fertilizers and pesticides. We have met a couple who live a few km from us and are also master gardeners from the US. They are looking to share their vast knowledge and experience with others and will be an important part of our training center. We also know a bilingual Panamanian who has been studying medicinal herbs in Panama for the last 25 years and he will also be leading some training seminars.

We have been able to shuttle back and forth about once a month this year.


Saludos,
Ron y Kim Miller
Finca Santa Marta
Healthy Food for Panama




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