Suan Lahu Café 3.85

Suan Lahu, meaning “Lahu Garden”, is a stretch of sloped land, eighty rai (30 acres, 12 hectares) in size, located in the highlands of Chiang Rai province in Northern Thailand. The mountainous terrain’s most recent manifestation is as a coffee plantation and indigenous community farm. Sixty rai are planted with Arabica coffee and fruit trees; twenty rai remain forested. Community members from the two neighboring Lahu villages oversee the farm and coffee production. Our farming approach is to develop and use organic, sustainable and traditional cultivation methods, in order to offer a greener alternative to the heavy chemical use that has dominated agricultural practices in the region in the last decades.