6 - SONGYUE coffee manor - Taiwan 2024

Located in Jianan Yunfeng of Yunlin County, SONGYUE Coffee Manor is a local pioneer in coffee cultivation. Owner Chang-Sheng Kuo grew up hearing stories about the Taiwanese coffee farms of eld, so he began planting his own coffees in the eighties. An expert in botany, he understands that the shallow roots of coffee plants are too easily affected by soil conditions at a surface level; therefore, he used various tools to guide his coffee plants to take deeper roots and apply organic fertilizer, remarking, “In the year when coffee harvests were bad all over Taiwan, our coffee trees were fruitful.”