Thailand Lanna

MEDIUM ROAST
10oz. whole bean coffee
Honey processed

Medium body with citric sweetness upfront with a good balance of chocolate and unique spices. Notes of melon and strawberry along with some roasted nuts.

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“Coffee from Thailand?” For over a century, refugees fleeing political and social upheaval in China and Southeast Asia have migrated to Northern Thailand. Stateless, these refugees live in poverty without many chances for a better life. It isn’t in any one person’s power to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across the world, but, when we work together, we can do great things.

When Lanna was founded, they had one thing in mind: service. How could they serve coffee farmers as well as customers? They wanted to provide premium coffee from a nontraditional region, but they also wanted to ensure that our business could improve lives in the communities they sourced from. To achieve this, Lanna partnered with an NGO with a similar goal: the Integrated Tribal Development Foundation.

The ITDF is an organization committed to improving the lives of poor hill tribe communities “in many aspects of life, including clean water, sanitation, agriculture, education, health, and cash crops.” For the past thirty years, the ITDF has been partnering with these communities to equip them with the training and equipment to produce stellar coffee. Today, over 40 villages are a part of Thailand’s first certified fair trade coffee co-op, immeasurably improving the lives of the people living there.

Lanna Coffee is the largest buyer of Thai coffee in the U.S. Thanks them, farmers have been encouraged to convert their crops to one that provides a more stable revenue source for themselves and their communities. Purchasing coffee from Lanna directly contributes to this goodwill that has allowed coffee production in Northern Thailand to flourish.

Today, over 400 coffee farms in Northern Thailand are 100% farmer owned. Lanna purchases single-source, pesticide-free coffee beans directly from these farmers and are constantly grateful for the literal fruits of their labor.