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Stories from the Bolaven Plateau
Lao coffee knowledge, export guides, harvest stories, and the people behind every lot we ship.
5 articles in “Farmer Stories” — clear filters
Farmer Stories
Meet Our Farmers: The People Behind Volcana Coffee
Smallholder families in Paksong, Thateng, and Laongam grow every bean we export. Here is how the partnership works — cherry premiums, training, pre-financing, and trust built season by season.
Farmer Stories
The Bolaven Plateau Coffee Harvest Calendar: A Year on the Farm
Flowering rains in March, ripening through the monsoon, picking from October, mills running through February, containers loading into May — the full annual rhythm of Lao coffee.
Farmer Stories
A Day in the Life of a Lao Coffee Farmer
Dawn mist, cherry baskets, a midday meal under the shade trees, and the evening delivery to the mill — harvest season on a two-hectare Paksong farm, hour by hour.
Farmer Stories
Paksong: The Coffee Capital of Laos
A highland town of drying yards, tak-tak tractors, and morning markets that moves most of a nation's coffee — portrait of the Bolaven Plateau's beating heart.
Farmer Stories
Harvest Season on the Bolaven: How Coffee Powers a Community
Picking crews, school calendars, festival season, and same-day cherry payments — what four months of harvest mean for the villages of the plateau, beyond the beans.