Farm
Farm
Roblealto owns an 150 acre property located near San Jose de la Montana. In addition to being the site for the Bible Home, it is also the location of Roblealto’s agro-business projects. Farm website
These wholly-owned businesses were created to provide funds and food products for the children’s programs. Our strong belief and commitment is to provide an ever increasing percentage of the administrative and operational costs of the children’s programs. The focus our work is to create and grow sustainable, viable and responsible businesses.
Currently the agro-businesses are divided into the following segments:
- An incubator and chicken hatchery – where each week over 100,000 day - old chicks are hatched and delivered to customers across the country and internationally.
- A dairy operation –our dairy herd is thriving in the cool mountain climate ideal for dairy production
- A hog farm - with over 100 breeding sows, we produce and raise pork for the national market
- Beef cattle – we maintain a herd to raise and finish off cattle for beef consumption. Our products are marketed locally.
- Innovation center – we strive to develop products and strategies to provide an ever increasing portion of the funds needed by the children. To achieve this goal we are constantly innovating with projects such as, methane gas generators, trout ponds, organic avocados and coffee . Some have been very successful and others ….well, we are still learning.
We invite socially-minded entrepreneurs to join our team. All profits are reinvested or donated directly to the children’s programs. We are highly motivated to invent creative ways to generate resources for the children. Our property is in a lush rainforest zone and contains two rivers and abundant flora. We are committed to being responsible caretakers of the land and adopt green practices in our activities. We are planning for the next generation by our program of tree planting and reforestation.
Hatchery Makes "Cents"
The children of the Roblealto Bible Home in Costa Rica affectionately call him "Tío Brooks." But also, many missionary "kids," young and old, refer to Brooks as their "Uncle" because he has welcomed them into his life as his friend. He embodies Jesus' admonition in Luke 16:9, "I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings."
Brooks Herman, who calls Hawthorne, Florida, his home base, never envisioned what God would do with his "five loaves and two fish." As a child, Brooks developed epilepsy. "My parents were Methodists and we went to church every time the doors were open," says Brooks. "When I was twelve years old, during a church service, I promised the Lord that if He would cure me of my epilepsy, I would serve Him for the rest of my life."