The Farm Journal

Discover how Nine North Lake unlocks the true potential of Thai Fine Robusta through guided anaerobic fermentation and sustainable permaculture practices in Chumphon.

If you flip over a bag of commercial coconut flakes at the grocery store, you might be surprised by what you find—or rather, what's missing. Most mass-produced coconut has been steamed, stripped of its natural, healthy oils (defatted), chemically bleached...

If you've only ever tried coconut sugar, you haven't actually tried palm sugar yet. Palmyra palm sugar is rarer, harder to produce, and — once you taste it — impossible to mistake for anything else. Here's what it is, why...

When the order notification chimed on ninenorthlake.com recently, we couldn't help but smile at the shipping destination: Florida, USA. Knowing that a 200g bag of our Fine Robusta is traveling across the globe to become the morning brew for a...

We had a fantastic day welcoming Dr. Nichada, Dr. Tae, and the SLRI team to Nine North Lake! Discover how we are merging advanced science, Smart Agriculture, and our newly approved Terra9 app to elevate the future of Thai Fine Robusta.

We thought growing coffee was the hard part. Turns out, tasting it properly might be harder. So we packed up and headed to the Chumphon Fine Robusta Center for a weekend of sensory analysis, manual brewing, and roasting — and got...

The modern coffee industry suffers from a profound disconnect. Every morning, millions of people brew their daily cup, yet very few have ever touched the soil where those beans were grown, smelled the jasmine-like fragrance of coffee blossoms, or watched...

The Specialty Coffee Paradigm Shift For decades, the specialty coffee world has been dominated by a single narrative: Arabica is for savoring, and Robusta is just for caffeine. But the climate is shifting, and so is the coffee industry. Welcome...