The Cacao Farm

Our Way of Life

Daily meal and maid service produces an incredible amount of free time each day. You can invest that free time into getting more work done, focusing on personal health and connecting with your family. This is the single greatest reason life at The Cacao Farm is so special.

Children

Our goal is to give parents time to work without distraction, while creating a learning environment that helps kids flourish. There are no screens for kids, but plenty of montessori learning toys, trips to help the maid with laundry, the cook in the kitchen and the farmer working with the animals.

The fountain in our courtyard was designed with children in mind. They should bring their swimsuits.

We have found that what children like most is the animals. The nannies often take ‘snack breaks’ so the kids can bring and feed snacks to the baby cows and chickens.

As a side benefit, young kids will pick up spanish quickly as our nannies speak very little english.

Daily Routine

Tea is served on the patio starting at 6:00am. At 7:30am our farm bell chimes announcing that breakfast has been served. It chimes again at 11:30am announcing lunch and at 4:00pm announcing dinner. At 5pm we do the forest walk. At 6:00pm tea and cookies are available in the dining room for those who want them.

As our property is a working regenerative farm, roosters crow at sunrise and dogs bark at night if any animals get near the chickens.

Life is slow here, but you are more productive. The daily routine is predictable, but you feel better. You are ‘far from the world’, but you feel more connected to what matters most.

Our Accommodations

We have four guest rooms. Two have queen beds, one has a king bed, and the other is a suite with a king bed and a twin bunkbed. All rooms can have roll away beds and cribs added. All rooms have air conditioning, a private bathroom, and hot water. The suite has a large bath tub.

Your nightly fee includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All meals are served in the dining room. We serve outrageously tasty, traditional, Nicaraguan food, prepared from nutrient-dense ingredients mostly grown onsite and according to the advice of Weston A Price and the native foods movement.

Your nightly fee also includes daily maid service in your room and laundry.

Our farm is fully staffed with a caretaker, a farmer, a cook, and a maid. Guests are welcome to explore the farm at their leisure or with our caretaker.

Internet

We have fiber optic internet, but consciously limit it to the office room. No internet access when not working is life changing. In a quiet rural environment, the time saved from social media is quickly invested into paying off sleep debt, exercise and time with your family or talking with other guests.

Our land

30 acres of food, forest and regeneration.

A quarter of our 30 acre property is dedicated to regrowing a native rainforest.

The rest is dedicated to producing all food for our kitchen without the use of imported/man made chemicals or fertilizers. We make and use neem oil sprays and turmeric as pesticides. We have a varietey of aerobic and anerobic fertilizers made from resouces onsite. We also produce mineral amendents from resouces found on the farm.

We have dogs, pigs, chickens, cows, beans, corn, cassava, a vegetable and herb garden, fruit trees, and specialty trees like coffee and cacao. We also have a variety of spice trees as well including cinnamon, allspice, and cloves.

We have a one-mile trail that leads through the forest with spectacular views and fascinating trees. The walk is available to guests anytime, though we recommend dawn and dusk as the most beautiful times of the day to do it.

Guests

The Cacao Farm is a unique destination that requires a long day of travel. The guests here are far more curious, bold and competent than average. This makes mealtimes in the dining room highly engaging and rewarding social experience.

Additional Experiences

If you are interested in learning how to make any of the wonderful meals you eat while at the farm, we offer a variety of cooking classes. The most popular are cheese making, ginger beer making, and coffee making (starting with picking the beans and ending with a cup to drink).

Getting to the Farm

We are a two to two and a half hour drive from the Managua International Airport. We have a driver that we regularly use for the farm whose taxi service we highly recommend. He will meet you at the airport with a sign, help you with your bags, and conduct you safely to the farm. Please contact us for his contact information.

Gallery

A look around the farm

Main courtyard

Plan a visit

$75 per night per adult*

Included

Private room with AC, bathroom and king or queen bed
Three farm-to-table meals prepared and served daily
Fiber internet, desk and printer in the office room
Daily maid service including laundry

* Discounts for 6+ week stays. Kids under 13 are free. Ages 13–18 are 50%.

Weather Information

We are in the tropical lowlands - this means it is always hot and humid
May 15th to Nov. 15th it is more humid with heavy rains (wet season)
Nov. 15th to Jan. 15th is the best weather due to less heat and humidity with moderate rain
Jan. 15th to May 15th, it is less humid with no rain, many trees lose their leaves (dry season)

What to bring

Sun hat, jeans, long sleeves and gloves for farm tours
Bug spray and sunscreen(if you use them)
Books or writing projects you've been meaning to finish

Seasonal Harvest Information

January: Turmeric, ginger, sugar cane, jicaro(horchata flavor)
February: 1st to April 15th: tubers, jacote, palm tree juice harvesting to drink or ferment into "chicha", panama tree nuts,
May: mango harvest, first planting of beans/corn, annual planting of sugar cane and new fruit trees,
June: fire fly season (peaks in june, lasts until august)
July: pitaya(dragon fruit), limes
August: nancite
October: guyabana, beans/corn and 2nd planting
November: coffee and cacao (3-month harvest)
December: sweet oranges, blue and tiger butterfly mating season (60 days)
*Year round harvests: bananas, pineapple, heart of palm, papaya, cinnamon