The coffee an hour from Taipei
Shiding grows the island's smallest crop in its wettest corner.
Too wet, too small
The northeast gets rain on more days than the rest of the island, and drying is the whole craft. Most farms here built covered beds or gave up.
Plots are measured in hundreds of trees, not hectares. A single family can pick the whole crop in a fortnight.
Shiding is not a destination. It is a reminder that coffee grows next to the city.
Why visit anyway
Because it is an hour from the city and the harvest is over by Christmas, which makes it the only coffee trip you can do on a Tuesday.
Go in November, buy what is on the table, and do not expect a tour.
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