Photos courtesy of Finca Rosa Blanca Coffee Plantation Resort
When Glenn Jampol heard that a finca – the Costa Rican word for farm – right across from his inn in the province of Heredia was for sale, he and his wife, Teri, jumped on buying it. Their reasoning, however, was not mainly for value, but more so with conservation.
The finca was being used for growing coffee, and its sale was happening at a bad time for this industry. “In the early and mid nineties, the coffee futures market went really low,” remembers Jampol, co-owner of the now called Finca Rosa Blanca Coffee Plantation Resort. The resulting impact was said to be… Read more...
