Exciting Coffee News!

Rick and I found it harder and harder to find good gifts for our friends and families as we started getting older. It seemed like we were always exchanging gift cards and we dreaded putting in the quick gift card into the even quicker Hallmark card, even though we knew it was to a store or place that they would like. It just seemed impersonal. Months before we moved here, we came up with the idea, (probably because there were like 4 family birthdays coming up,) that if we could get a camera system up in time for the harvest season, we would offer people another option this year for people that like coffee.

So, for a set price, you can give someone (or yourself) a present of being a "Tree-Holder" for the season (Now through February 2017). What it includes:

1. A closeup picture of the designated tree with the sign.
2. A Tree-Holder certificate.
3. 24/7 (mostly) Live camera access
   1. The instructions and access to view the live cameras showing their tree and some of the other trees in the area.
   2. Unfortunately, we do not control the power or the internet here, so there will be times where there are outages and those are out of our control. Power in Panama is normally only down for a few minutes at a time, but it is not unheard of to have it down for a few hours.
   3. These live cameras are also good for seeing the weather and watching workers pick the coffee for the trees.
   4. The cameras need to work off of an application. There is an application for Mac, Windows, Android or iOS. 
4. The coffee cherries picked from the Tree-Holder's tree will be weighed and recorded. At the end of the season, the Tree-Holder will have the option of having the coffee beans delivered either as green (unroasted coffee beans), or roasted (Each tree comes with a guaranty of a minimum of 1 lb.)

Screenshot from one of the cameras.

We only have a few cameras available so we are offering this to people that read our blog before we put it on our website. Some trees obviously can be seen better than others and we are only offering this package on those trees that can be seen with a name sign. We have limited areas where we can put cameras that do not just show the tops of a bunch of coffee trees and nothing else. (Such as room to see your name sign, the workers, the weather...etc.)   :)

If you are interested, please email: buypanamacoffee@gmail.com 

Camera 4 screenshot.