“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and the next best time is today.” As planting season is upon us once again in Panama, the farms are a hive of activity.In Boquete, the coffee farmers are preparing to plant 80,000 coffee saplings of the most in-demand...
How often have you heard the phrase “boots on the ground” used in the investment or real estate industry?Originally it was a Military saying. "Boots on the ground" is shorthand for troops deployed in a foreign country. ... Infantry has been stomping in boots through...
This week was another eventful week in our development as we packed and shipped our first order of specialty coffee and chocolate from the new chocolate factory in Panama to our client in the US.For some time now, you have been able to order our Belizean range of bars...
Mahogany Chocolate has a critical need to lock in a safe and secure supply of high-quality, ethically produced cacao for its growing national and international chocolate sales program.Worldwide demand continues to outstrip supply for fine flavored Trinitario...
On July 10th, 2021, we held our first virtual online tour, live from a cacao farm in Panama. Our new distribution partners in Japan organized the tour, supported by the Panamanian Embassy in Japan, and hosted by our Team. When they first requested that we host the...
Exciting times this week as our farm team got started building our 75,000 capacity cacao sapling nursery on our new farm in Chiriqui Grande, Panama. Andres Lopez, or VP of Farming Operations, had carefully identified the best area on the 62.5 hectares (156 acres),...
Hello and greetings from all of our Team here in Panama.To all of our clients and followers in the US, we hope you enjoyed a 4th of July weekend with family and friends and a glimpse of getting back to "normal" after a tough 18 months or so.While the pandemic was...
We are delighted to announce the addition of a beautiful 62.5 hectares (155 acres) cacao farm to our portfolio of specialty agriculture farmland in Panama.With 11 specialty coffee farms in Panama and 5 cacao farms in Belize, this will be our first cacao farm in...
Last week we announced that the 1st container shipment of bars and other chocolate products from Belize had arrived in the US.This shipment meant that our Belizean chocolate products were available for order with local US delivery once again in their new and improved...
For those of you following our progress, you will have heard us mentioning Japan and our Japanese partners more and more frequently. You hopefully saw the announcement in February where we sent our first shipment of chocolate bars to Japan from our new factory in...
We are pleased to announce that our US distributor of Belizean chocolate bars has received his container and is fully stocked up!As many of your know, we have been working with a client of ours in the US that made our Belizean range of chocolate bars available on...
In April 2020, we launched our newest exciting syndication, introducing a new ownership model that took into account all that we had learned over the previous six years of operations in Panama and Belize. Peini Cacao Plantation, LLC is a 506c Private Placement that...
Over the coming months and years, we will be gradually upgrading our factory facilities and increasing our production capacity and efficiency.The arrival of our new Flow-Wrapper machine is the next stage in our evolution.When we shipped our large chocolate bar orders...
Saturday at 6 am, our team was gathered on Finca Cuatro Caminos, where our coffee mill, laboratory, and storage facility is located, to load 12 tons of coffee into a container bound for Japan. There were mixed emotions of both excitement and relief, as this container...
The global chocolate market is expected to grow to roughly $161 Billion, by 2024.Yet, most people have no idea where chocolate comes from! Did you know it grows on trees?Our Team has created some pretty cool videos to explain the entire "seed to bean to bar" process....
March 11th, 2021. A significant date in our journey as we continue to introduce our delicious chocolate products to the world. At 6 am on Thursday, our team was busy loading thousands of Mahogany Chocolate bars onto a refrigerated truck, bound for Panama City, to...
We are very excited to announce that our new Japanese partners have secured their 1st order of finished chocolate bars, and we are sending our very first shipment from the new Panama chocolate factory to Japan! Our new client is one of the largest trading companies in...
Last week was a busy and satisfying week for our Mahogany Chocolate Team in Belize. On Thursday, we held a product launch at our factory in Punta Gorda, where we unveiled the new and improved packaging and expanded range of Belizean chocolate bars. And we introduced...
At Mahogany Chocolate in Belize, we are extremely proud to release our brand-new, reinvigorated, user-friendly, and sleek chocolate bar packaging for our “Belizean” brand of chocolate bars and to launch our newest product “Chocol’ha”, a decadent...
After what has been a pretty lean 2020 for chocolate bar orders, due to reasons that we all understand yet could not control, 2021 has started with a bang! This week we received 3 orders from 3 significant channels and 3 different countries. Japan, the US, and...
The processing of the cacao beans takes place in Belize. Each tree is individually managed and the beans from each tree are harvested, then fermented and dried, utilizing a 3-tier system with passive solar drying. They are then hand sorted and classified by the team...
Dear Investor, The cacao farms for this offering are located in Toledo, Belize, in the southern part of the country. Belize is a Caribbean country located on the northeastern coast of Central America, with a population of an estimated 420,000 people. It is the only...
After months of remodeling, delays, surprises, and lockdowns, our new chocolate factory in Boquete, Panama is now open and operational! Willy Wonka has arrived in Panama! To give you a better idea of how the factory looks, explain what each machine actually does, and...
Dear Investor, Peini Cacao Plantation, LLC is a Private Placement offering in specialty agriculture, specializing in cacao, where qualified investors acquire a stake in a chocolate producing enterprise and retain ownership throughout their lifetime. It is an offering...
Hello and Happy New Year from all the Team here at AgroNosotros in Panama and Belize. We hope you enjoyed a safe Holiday season with family and loved ones and that you are starting out strongly into an exciting and prosperous new year. For us, 2021 has started off...
2020 has been a challenging, peculiar year for everybody with many unexpected difficulties that have tested us as individuals and as a company. Yet, far from weakening us, it has given us the strength to continue growing with our Team and an opportunity to learn how...
As all of our readers are well aware there was a major, unforeseen crisis this year, the likes of which we have never experienced before.A pandemic decimated the global economy and changed the way we live, travel and work, maybe forever!It’s safe to say the proverbial...
Greetings from a cool and rainy Boquete, Panama! This past week has been a hive of activity as we hosted our first private investor tour since January, and as work continues full steam ahead in the remodeling and developing of our new chocolate factory (to be known as...
For those of you already invested in Peini Cacao Plantation, LLC, the latest chocolate syndication, and for those of you planning to join soon, these next few weeks will be very exciting!After months of rehab, re-wiring the building to add 3-phase power and dealing...
What if you could find an investment that not only increased in value over time, but also outpaced inflation? What if that same investment didn’t have massive price fluctuations, but helped provide a basic human need? This is exactly what agricultural investments...
As we continue in the phased development and expansion of the current chocolate-making factory in Belize and the introduction of our new factory in Panama, we are adding new equipment and altering our packaging process to handle the increased production and sales...
When you invest with AgroNosotros, you invest side by side with Sponsors who are also the Operators.In Peini Cacao Plantation, LLC there are 2 in-house operating companies. Peini Cacao Plantation ltd, who manages the farming operations and Mahogany...
Cacao was first developed as a crop in many ancient South American cultures, with the Aztecs and Maya communities being the most well-known of these indigenous populations. And today still, many of these indigenous communities live off the land by producing cacao. But...
Consumers are looking for foods with fewer and cleaner ingredients, and natural products that are made by companies with values they care about that can provide environmental and social sustainability. They also want to feel good about the foods they are consuming,...
It’s 5 am and our Panama team are all logging onto a video conference call with our Team in Japan, where it is 8pm on a Friday evening. We were also joined by our Chocolate Maker Team in Switzerland, Werner and Mitsue. A few months ago, we shipped our first...
At present, the cacao industry is a $100 billion industry and expected to grow to $160 billion by 2024. These numbers iterate the fact that cacao consumption is on the rise and more people are consuming cacao as a specialty product. Millennials are...
Last weekend we recorded a very interesting conversation with one of our partners, which we think you are certain to find captivating and valuable as you continue getting to know us, and in your due diligence on our current...
There are multiple options available to investors through traditional brokerage firms and digital platforms, for which one does not need to be financially sophisticated. What is needed in order to choose the right alternative is to be aware of the elements of...
Nothing provides a more comforting feeling than being able to fulfill a basic human need like food. A commodity that is tangible and satisfies a basic human necessity will always maintain value and in times of global economic crisis, provide a SAFE HAVEN for...
In agriculture, everything moves in cycles. Now with rainy season approaching full flow, our coffee farming team in Boquete, Panama is getting ready to plant another 107,280 saplings throughout our network of 12 specialty coffee farms! The majority of these saplings...
By Armando Choco, Executive Chocolate Maker, Mahogany Chocolate, Our business model is focused on high quality, craft chocolate. To produce a consistent, high quality product, you need full control from “seed to bean to finished product” and you need...
Picking up where we left off in our Current Opportunities update, we understand that not everyone reading these emails are Accredited Investors. So, to make sure that no investor was left behind, we made a limited number of coffee farm parcels available,...
For our first 4 or 5 years of operations, we had about 30% of our clients using some form of retirement funds to acquire parcels in our coffee farms in Panama and cacao farms in Belize. It was a perfect fit! Then, for the past couple of years, as the Government’s...
Over the last 2 years we have been steadily building our relationships within the coffee and chocolate industry in Japan. From our previous newsletters you will know that we brought Werner and Mitsue Rüegsegger onto our team as consultants during this time. Werner is...
Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is coming to Boquete, Panama! We are extremely excited to have started work on our new chocolate factory. Originally the plan was for the factory to be located in the Free Zone in Panama City, but after careful consideration, we have...
Building a coffee nursery is probably one of the most important activities a coffee farm needs to develop. This allows us to: Be certain of the quality of the seed, its origin, its varietal and its early treatments among many other important details.Manage the root...
The world as we know it may have slowed down, and in some cases even stopped, but life on a coffee farm and the agricultural activities that we perform, continue daily. During the week we visited our cluster of 5 farms in the Jaramillo Region, to monitor our...
There is a whole lot more to selling chocolate bars than simply getting the flavor and packaging right.After you have studied the market and identified your niche, perfected your recipe and branding, then comes the “fun” part. Getting the permits in place to be able...
We made a promise to you earlier this year to provide updates and regular content from other members of our Executive Team. We have sent you several reports from Valentina Pedrotti, our Biologist and Value Chain Analyst, and you recently heard from Armando Choco, our...
Hot on the heels of announcing our new chocolate bar brand due to be produced in Panama later this year, we have some exciting news about our current range of Belizean chocolate bars! As you may know, in 2019 we launched a range of chocolate bars in Belize,...
Thursday May 21st, 2020 marks the day that we ordered our brand-new line of chocolate bar making equipment to start up our new factory in Panama. As part of our current cacao/chocolate Offering, Peini Cacao Plantation, LLC, we will continue growing cacao in...
People often ask us, “what’s the difference between AgroNosotros and other companies offering agricultural investments?” For me, the main difference is that we are Owners and Operators of the farms, facilities and businesses that our clients invest in. Like in our...
We are extremely proud and excited to introduce to you, our brand-new range of authentic, fine flavor chocolate bars, created exclusively for the benefit of our Class A Unitholders in our latest Offering, Peini Cacao Plantation, LLC. This exciting and delicious...
We appreciate your recent interest in learning about our agricultural investment opportunities. In our last communication we covered the questions, Why Invest in Agriculture? and What is Agriculture? Now more than ever, investors are flocking towards...
It´s an important question…especially when you own and operate 17 specialty coffee and cacao farms, as we do. Before we get into the Why… ask yourself… What is Agriculture? “Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising...
From the very beginning, International Coffee Farms (ICFC) has established as a priority managing each of our projects under a scientific approach and implementing cutting edge technology available on the market. This of course requires constant...
A quest to get Mahogany Chocolate Bars to all Stores in BelizeBy Armando Choco, Executive Chocolate Maker, Mahogany Chocolate Chocolate and Belize Fourteen years ago, the only chocolates quirkily displayed in Belize City, towns and village stores were Snickers, Mars...
Greetings to all our AgroNosotros Clients, Friends, Family and everyone else who follows our newsletters. First off, we hope that this email finds you and your family safe and well during these unprecedented times. The economic uncertainty coupled with a global...
In times of uncertainty such as these, we are encouraging our Team, Affiliates, and Clients to stay calm. These stock market corrections and worldwide economic uncertainty are not new. They come in cycles. It’s how well prepared for them we are that ultimately defines...
We have never said these words since we started operations in 2014… We are completely Sold Out of Coffee farm parcels in Panama and Cacao farm parcels in Belize! Congratulations to all our parcel Owners, old and new, who have taken a step to protect their family’s...
Not quite “a partridge in a pear tree” but this is what we currently have in stock and available for you right now. The last 4 remaining coffee farm parcels in Panama, the absolute final cacao farm parcel in Belize, and the last available room in our upcoming Jazz...
Good afternoon to all you lucky parcel Owners who applied for and will be accepted as the very first Exclusive Members of Quiet Luxury Boquete (QLB). If you are a parcel Owner and haven’t made your application to become a Member, the time is now. And if are not...
FEB 13 – 16, 2020 (OR COME EARLIER/STAY LONGER)YOUR QUIET LUXURY BOQUETE (QLB) EVENT PACKAGE WILL INCLUDE: Deluxe private car transportation to/from David airport and Boquete and local transport in “appropriately” equipped 4WD vehicles 3 nights (or 4-5-7+ nights...
We are extremely excited to announce that we are now under contract with the largest full-service and refrigerated national food distributor in Belize to carry our complete line of 6 artisanal chocolate bars which include the 4 most recently developed products. When...
December 31st marks the END OF THE DECADE (EOD) and we are marking the occasion with something we have never done before! Being in business for 5 years now, with that monumental event coinciding with the end of the decade, definitely calls for a...
It’s that time of year again! We just sent out our 4th consecutive annual coffee farm parcel Owners report and our 4th consecutive annual distribution. With steady progress being made on and off the farm, those parcel Owners in our first group of...
In today’s world with so much choice and so many options available to the consumer with the internet putting goods from around the globe at your fingertips, it’s not enough to have a quality product. Your brand needs to be recognized. If you have the best coffee in...
Last week our VP of Agriculture, Mr. Andres Lopez, took me to the top of the Jaramillo cluster of 5 farms. When I was there last year it was a tough, 2 hour long hike (and sometimes a crawl!) but this year I was extremely pleased when we were able to walk to the...
In 1492 when Columbus discovered the Americas, he was searching for Alternative routes to the East to open valuable trade routes. The then existing trade routes to India provided access to exotic riches like spices, silks and tea. When the Spanish colonized...
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now!” A very appropriate quote, seeing as right now we are in planting season in both Panama and Belize. With 77,000 coffee saplings and 50,000 cacao saplings being planted this year alone....
Just as every mother thinks their child is the cutest and brightest, all coffee and chocolate producers think their product is the “best in class”. We are all a bit biased, and that’s OK. That’s also why independent 3rd party ratification in these 2 very...
With the recent exciting news about our new Cannabis Financing and our private Island Syndication in Belize with their “sexy” ROI’s, it may be easy for some of you to lose sight of our core business model and what got us to where we are today....
We are very excited about our upcoming group coffee farm tour in Boquete, Panama! Scheduled for Friday November 15th through Sunday 17th. If you’ve been following our progress over the years and are interested in owning your own coffee farm parcel then this...
You may have seen striking images of bisected cacao beans. These vivid purple slices aren’t just for show – they’re part of an evaluation method called a cut test. But is this test actually meaningful? Cut tests are one of multiple analyses done at origin to evaluate...
When you invest in a turnkey managed, passive income generating farm, you do so because you don’t really want to get your hands dirty. You let your money work for you. Not the other way around. Smart! But, someone has to get their hands dirty to turn around these old...
Thank you very much to all 197 people who signed up to attend our inaugural webinar on Thursday. The response post-webinar has been outstanding and we will be providing more live events such as this to cover various opportunities as we continue to grow. We appreciate...
The Lamastus Family’s Elida Estate. Specialty Coffee Association of Panama photo. The 23rd Best of Panama specialty coffee auction resulted in astounding prices, including a BoP auction-record-breaking natural-process Gesha variety from the Lamastus...
Well it certainly is reassuring to know that we are in the coffee business in the right country! Panamanian Geisha coffee has once again smashed its own record, selling at auction for an eye watering $1,029 lb. Think about that…that’s more valuable than the vast...
PEINI CACAO 2017 Series 1 Syndication 2nd Annual Parcel Owners Report Dated July 1, 2019 2018 BELIZE OPERATIONS (For the Period January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018) Welcome Peini Cacao Plantation Ltd. farm parcel Owners, to your second consecutive annual...
Is farmland the last great untapped asset class? Farmland currently represents an almost $9 trillion market globally with historically high returns and low volatility. A growing population driving demand for high-quality food coupled with a finite and decreasing...
2 years after we launched our first cacao parcel Ownership opportunity in Belize, this offering is now closing. All but 7 of the original 196 parcels are now in the hands of satisfied real estate investors who have diversified their portfolios by adding cash flowing...
Following along from the 3 Common Misconceptions and the 2nd Common Misconception newsletter is the 3rd in the series…you guessed it! The 3rd Common Misconception. #3 What if the Company loses interest down the road and gives up...
Farmland and gold are two of the world’s oldest and most valuable asset classes, and they share many similar benefits that investors still find attractive today. Unfortunately, as those of us in the industry know, investing in farmland has been largely overlooked in...
Listening to Peter Schiff on the Real Estate Guys podcast the other day and then following his social media posts about the coming economic correction is enough to put a damper on anyone’s day! All the talk of tariffs, trade wars...
Following on from the 1st of the series, 3 Misconceptions sent last week, from which we received quite a lot of positive feedback, here in part 2 we address the 2nd most common misconception or misunderstanding we hear about our business model. #2 The...
What an experience that was. We are truly grateful to all our attendees and speakers who flew in from the US, UK, Switzerland, Belgium and as far away as Japan to speak at and attend our inaugural event. These incredibly busy chocolate makers and industry...
It’s interesting when you get to talk to somebody on the phone who, even after following our progress for years, listening to various podcasts and reading our newsletters since day 1, still have some fundamental misconceptions about our business model. We get it, our...
The coffee harvest season in Panama is once a year. Beginning in October, in the lower lying of the farms we own, and running through to March/April for those located in the highest coffee growing regions. For us, harvest season begins in fincas Cuatro Caminos, Dona...
Why Own Land? For centuries the world’s wealthiest families have owned land. Being a Land-Owner set you apart in society. Going back to early civilization, when man learned how to produce food on his land and could produce more than he could consume, he then had...
Infinite Returns. If you listen to as many real estate and investment podcasts as we do, and if Robert Kiyosaki is one of them, then you will have heard a lot about infinite returns lately. What does it mean? It’s when you can invest in something and over a period of...
After a group coffee or cacao farm tour we often ask our attendees if they would be so kind as to give us a written testimonial that we can share with future attendees and anyone considering becoming a parcel Owner. On Monday we received such a thoughtful and detailed...
June will mark the 5th year since we founded International Coffee Farms (ICFC) in Panama. It’s cliché to say that the time has flown by, but it really has. When we look at what we started with, which was an idea, no staff and no farms. To where we are now...
On March 14th we left Panama and flew to Florida where we were meeting up with 201 eager, inquisitive real estate investors to attend the 17th annual Real Estate Guys Investor Summit at Sea. This was David Sewell’s 5th year (as faculty) and my 4th year attending this...
It’s now five months after we launched our two new chocolate bars in Belize….the Belizean and Brukdown. Initially available only in our own Mahogany Chocolate store, located in Ambergris Caye, we soon started getting requests from local stores to supply them...
Another busy coffee harvest season is in full swing in Panama while the cacao bean buying team are approaching the peak of the harvest season in Belize. So, it’s all hands to the pump for now and we are up to our ears in coffee and chocolate. The coffee harvest season...
AgroNosotros has a simple yet clear byline. Grow it Globally! And we don’t just mean our specialty coffee and fine flavor cacao that we grow in Panama and Belize. Or even the growing list of coffee and cacao farm parcel Owners who are spread around the 4 corners of...
As we get ready to attend another amazing Real Estate Guys Summit at Sea in March, we know we can expect to hear Peter Schiff tell us that the next crash, in his words “the real crash” is coming, and coming soon. We spend a lot of time at events like this...
Without further adieu..we are excited to launch our brand new, completely re-vamped International Coffee Farms (ICFC) website. Like a butterfly leaving his cocoon after slowly and meticulously developing to its full potential, we are very proud to show off our farms...
What a weekend we just had hosting our latest group coffee farm tour in Boquete, Panama. We had a mix of existing coffee farm parcel Owners coming to see their land for the first time, and new buyers here to “kick the trees” and get to see our operation up close and...
Last week we rolled out our new Peini Cacao website and social media channels. Closely followed by the new and improved Cacao Parcel Ownership FAQ. The website contains all the most current information on our farms, our team, the farmers we work...
Just a few days ago, we rolled out our new and improved Peini Cacao website and social media channels. They contain a lot of information on our farms, our team, the farmers we work with, our processing facilities, our semi-finished and finished chocolate products. If...
January is the time of year for New Year’s resolutions where people are busy making plans to improve their lives, to change bad habits and set targets to create a new and improved version of themselves, their careers and their businesses. To be the very best that they...
It seems like only a few months ago that we were writing “2018” for the first time, and now the year is almost over. Time really does fly when you are having fun! Farmland Parcels Are Available! We have been so busy running the various aspects of our companies, that...
Greetings from Panama City, Panama. It’s Darren Doyle from AgroNosotros. 4 weeks ago we met each other at the 44th annual New Orleans Investment Conference. Our entire team enjoyed spending 4 days in the “Big Easy” meeting with you all and getting to know you....
Panamanian Specialty Coffee is a hot topic right now. With Geisha from Boquete, Panama setting new world records and selling for $801 a lb, everyone is suddenly talking about Panama´s specialty coffee. Would you like to ride the crest of this Specialty Coffee wave and...
