Punta Gallinazo is on the mainland of Panama, adjacent to the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, in the Caribbean Coast. It is about 30 minutes away by small motor boat to Bocas, and 8 km, from the road, to Almirante.

Finca Esmeralda
(The Emerald Farm)

Own Titled Oceanfront Estate Property in the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago
Build your dream ocean front home
Private - Secure - Convenient

Reside in a 100-acre organic shade-grown Cacao Farm.
Three 30-acre lots available, starting at $100,000




Heritage Organic Cacao Farm Restoration Project

Looking for property in Bocas?

Do you love Chocolate? Are you part of those concerned about preserving the beauty and bio-diversity of our world? Want to build your tropical, waterfront retreat home in a private, quiet, and secure area, with like-minded people as neighbors?

Our properties are centrally located at Punta Gallinazo… just a few miles by boat from Bocas, Dolphin Bay, Shepherd Island, and Almirante. We also have the new highway going through the upper part of the property that provides quick access to other parts of the mainland.

The organic farm ensures the preservation of the remnant tropical rain forests, the giant mangrove habitats, and virgin coral reefs still thriving on our shores. You can purchase and develop your waterfront or hilltop acreage feeling secure your environment and nearby ecological sanctuary will be preserved.

For more information contact Larry Robertson: larryarc@earthlink.net

Our Offer
Own titled, oceanfront estate property

Bonus
FREE Day-Use Boat dock in Bocas (limited time offer)

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Still interested?

Each Property consist of approximately 30 acres of mixed coastal and hilltop property to develop into their estate as they wish.

The property consists also of a substantial area along the new highway. A 15-minute walk away from our coastal living areas, this frontage will provide space to build garages as well as plenty of property to consider other retail development for income potential. Mom and Pop store? Gas station? Housing for workers?
We are seeing new development being built along the highway in both directions from our cacao farm.
There is also talk of the new power lines following the path of the highway soon. This would bring quiet, low cost electricity to our area for those interested.


For more information contact Larry Robertson: larryarc@earthlink.net

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Looking for the right buyers

We are selling titled property, approximately 30 acre in size each, within the boundaries of a working coastal farm, at prices starting at $100,000.
We are looking for a small group of people who want to live in a quiet and natural setting.
We seek individuals who agree to use organic, non-intrusive systems on their land, and who will be interested in pursuing sustainable development such as solar power, approved septic systems, and pole house construction.


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Benefits

One of our partners first heard about this farm several years ago.
At that time, it was in danger of being destroyed by a teak and noni venture. A potential disaster to the farm.
We contacted the owners, offered to purchase and promised to preserve the soils and restore the property to a working cacao farm if possible. There are few existing farms left in the Bocas Archipelago that have not been clear cut and subjected to cattle grazing, mono-culture and erosion. This property is a rare gem that deserved to be preserved.

The father who ran the farm for several generations passed away and his two surviving children each have their own properties elsewhere in the Islands. There is no one left in the family that has an interest in trying to revive the land. We have traced ownership of this estate property back to the turn of the century.

This farm is very well know in the area for its fine soils, huge harvests of fruits and vegetables, as well as reports indicating that it used to produce as much as 80,000 pounds of cocoa beans a year! That's a lot of chocolate! The trees live up to 100 years and there are still over 20,000 trees alive under the forested canopy slopes of the farm. There are no reports of chemicals being used on the farm for over 15 years. It is located in a quiet area of the coastal mainland.

Close to everything but permanently protected by its topography from the ever increasing noise of the bars, nightclubs and discos of Bocas, Carenero, and Bastimentos.

...new road

Extra Bonus

Each buyer will receive day use permits from our Marina project in Bocas as long as the project remains in the present ownership.
Low cost, long term leases for boat slips in the same marina are also available if needed. This will guarantee you a safe and dependable place for you to dock your boat while in town.

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Lifestyle

Each buyer will be encouraged to use pole style construction. This does not restrict your design. Pole structures have been used in the tropics for 100's of years for very good reasons and come in all shapes and sizes. Pole structures require very little disturbance of the soils and surrounding land.

All grading of the land will be discouraged and carefully evaluated by our collective group. We always need to consider soil stability while designing our projects. Erosion will affect the coral, mangrove, and fish populations around the area and needs to be controlled at all times.

As buyers develop their property, a common ATV road could be developed, as a home-owner group project, to the coastal residential area, assuming that traffic would be restricted to small, all terrain vehicles and farm tractors.

Most of us will come and go by boat from Bocas. The sea route to the farm is the same taken every day by dozens of water taxies going back and forth from Almirante to Bocas. Deep water all the way with no treacherous mangrove mazes or coral heads to worry about.

Goals

We seek people who share the dreams and vision outlined above. In general, stay peaceful and natural when possible, do not harm the land, and be a good neighbor. The initial clearing of the farm, surveying of the road, and building of a simple dock are currently underway.

Each buyer will have a beautiful home site and approximately 30 acres of land with sweeping views of the ocean. The home site will be ample enough to accommodate a main house, boat house, guest house, shop, rental, and a place for workers to stay while onsite.

Privacy

The farm provides a large, working greenbelt surrounding the residential areas offering guaranteed views, privacy and security while protecting the land from clear cutting, mono-culture ventures that have not proven themselves to be sustainable or ecologically sound. The Farm will remain a quiet natural reserve and getaway.

Security

Our caretaker, Timothy, with his wife and children, has lived on the farm for the past 12 years and is under contract with us to watch over the land, all of our improvements as well as to help us carefully restore the Cacao areas of the finca. We will hire additional workers as needed to achieve our goals.

Excerpts from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

A sustainable, biologically diverse system of growing cocoa will:

Be based on cocoa grown under a diverse shade canopy in a manner that sustains as much biological diversity as is consistent with economically viable yields of cocoa and other products for farmers.

Use constructive partnerships that are developed to involve all stakeholders with special emphasis on small farmers.

Build effective policy frameworks to support these partnerships and address the particular needs of small farmers for generations to come.

Encourage future cocoa production that rehabilitates agricultural lands and forms part of a strategy to preserve remnant forests and develop habitat corridors.

Maximize the judicious use of biological control, techniques of integrated management of pests, disease, and other low input management systems

For more information contact Larry Robertson: larryarc@earthlink.net

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