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So many different people came on site to learn natural and sustainable building while experiencing the grounding, nurturing and satisfying feelings that comes from working with mud.

Lyn created ArtFarm as a space where anyone could come and stay for an in-farm experience. It is ideal for fellow artists and creatives looking for the perfect space for inspiration, or maybe a chef wanting to participate in an in-farm residency, cooking with the terrain’s own ingredients.

In Panama, Simply Natural Farms shows what caring about your food really means. They cultivate a special kind of fruit delicacy, known as “14 Brix Melons.”

At Simply Natural Farms it is key to, well, keep it natural. No small feat when talking about a farm that owns the largest greenhouse and organic nursery in Central America.

An unexpected duo—”The Agronomist and the Wall Street Investor”, Alan Winstead and Brian Angiuli—joined visions back in 2014 with the goal of creating a large-scale, industrial organic farming operation that would reorient Panama’s productive sector towards the export of tropical fruit.

As a frequent visitor to organic commercial fruit farms in Latin America, I've learned that a farm's nursery is a key component to its success.

Having spent the last six years visiting with farmers in Latin America, I am regularly invited to buy conventional and organic green coffee in bulk. Most of the time I simply respond that coffee is its own beast, and I stick to fruit. However, a visit to the world-class coffee region of Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama inspired me to take a deeper look.

For the last five years, we've seen how a fast-growing organic farm in Panama called Simply Natural has been growing from a concept to a fully-established commercial farming operation.

The Community Behind Boquete, a small valley in the Province of Chiriqui, Panama bordering Costa Rica.