Zou Zhu Yuan 鄒築園

The drying patio sits above the road, under a translucent roof that turns the light flat and even. Below it, a few hundred Geisha trees on a slope steep enough that everything is carried by hand.

The family has grown coffee since the 1980s. What changed was the sorting: since the mid-2000s every cherry is floated, and the floaters are sold separately rather than mixed back in.

What they grow

Visiting

Visits run on a by appointment basis. Write two weeks ahead inside the harvest window, and confirm whether the mill is running that day.

• Annual output is around 1.8 t.
• Outside the season the farm is usually closed; call first.
• Routes that include this region

What we verified