Alanger Coffee

Taiwan is also known as the beautiful island with the name “Formosa”In the 16th century, Portugal named the stunning area Taitung is currently located as “Alanger”.We are the children of Alanger and we want to be ourselves.We hope the coffee lover in you can enjoy our exquisite coffee flavor which hasno extra burden on your health. 

We do not pursue an overly luxurious flavor. Just like Taitung's clean and pollution-free coffee beans,the coffee beans produced in here have an elegant and mild flavor, a delicate, elegant and mellow taste, with a slightly drunken aroma and sweetness.We emphasize the concepts of environmental protection in our planting, educate farmers cultivation techniques, hold coffee training activities, and train evaluation and cupping teams to help everyonecheck the flavor of the first sip.

In 1974, the farm received Arabica coffee beans left by the Japanese,and planted them in the Jinlun River Basin next to the Nandawu Mountain Nature Reserve,near Huang Hot Spring and 800 meters above Dufeilu Hot Spring. Near the tribe, a wild coffee species conservation area has been established. The farm is backed by the mountains and faces the sea, with the natural sea breeze blowing all year round.The coffee beans produced by traditional farming methods under the clouds have the characteristics of island beans and plateau beans, and the brewed coffee has a unique aroma and taste.

Our unique seeds attract Jack like a magic bean in the fairytale; the dreaming aroma draws the men and women to Alanger. Have a cup of warm, earthy and elegant Alanger coffee! Immerse your very soul in our blissful taste……

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The spirit of natural farming

The spirit of natural farming is to integrate crops into the ecosystem of the cultivated land, and although it’s still invevitable that we will affect the natural balance, the gentle changes make it easier for the forces of nature to quickly recover. Therefore, substances that cannot be naturally generated, including artificial and genetically modified crops, hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, and other human-created substances, are prohibited. Natural materials need to be used with discretion, taking into account the impact had on the cultivation site.

Different species have changes to their conditions, and with the emergence of a unique way to fight adversities, it can be integrated with the natural system of continuous reproduction and evolution. Although because they have different survival skills, and need to compete with one another for limited resources and can coexist in one place, no species can obtain absolute survival advantages. They all rely on other species to obtain food, which constitute a fully utilized ecological circulation system, which is the balance of a natural system.

Natural multi-level cultivation method and the agricultural environmental economy rotation

Hongyu Natural Farm adopts the natural multi-level cultivation method and the agricultural environmental economy rotation, and are engaged in economic crop production.

What is: " Natural multi-level cultivation method and the agricultural environmental economy rotation"?

Currently, Hongyu Natural Farm engages in multiple economic agricultural production with natural farming methods: cash crops (Shrubs) are planted under economic trees (Wood). The wood, after being thinned, can be used in mushroom production. The vegetation caused by cash crops can be planted with other special crops, and those special crops can be reprocessed into health commodities.

Experience sharing seedling germination and treatment of coffee trees

Cultivated green coffee beans have shells, and there are those without shells, but regardless of the species, the beans must have been soaked in water in order for germination to happen.

Coffee raw beans soaked in water have a germination time for 7-10 days at best. Water must be changed every day (Can not use tap water), and when warm water is used (About body temperature), the process will be faster. Do not add other things at this time. Normal seeds after undergoing this germination procedure should have a visible bud point that stretches out. This budding point is its root bud.

With it, it can be planted on a moist medium, with the budding point facing down. The depth is about one centimeter, and be sure to avoid compaction. Keep it moist and when the root grows downwards, the beans will be pushed out. The beans will turn green after contact with the light and then grow cotyledons.

Coffee is a shade-loving plant, so seedlings do not need direct sunlight to grow well. Due to this, it is suitable for a seed “forest. The seedling period can be cultivated while indoors for a long time.

The experience of coffee tree seedlings

The seedlings of coffee trees are very important, because after the harvest of coffee berries, peels, ·pulp, and beans , they can be sown into a moist and well-drained medium. Thinly covered soil can be used, but remember to keep moist for about 1-2 months in order to see the seedling have a germination rate of up to 100%. The germinated seedlings are then moved to a pot and can reach a height of a foot after a year of care. Then after 4 to 5 years, they will enter their peak period. If cultivated in as if they were seedlings, it becomes a risky process and will cause problems that are difficult to manage after germination.

Cocoa beans that germinate in the same way as coffee beans

After the fourth day of cocoa bean germination, it will have a fully grown budding point. This point is the root bud, and can be moved into the pot and covered with thin soil. Keep moist for about 30 days, and you’ll be able to see the cotyledon green cocoa saplings.

Natural sprouts

The sprouts produced by Hongyu Natural Farm are cultivated with natural humus soil and mountain spring water. With simple facilities and low technical thresholds, they can eat nutritious, delicious and healthy.

Duanmu black fungus

Wood is taken from the forest, fungus is planted on the spot.

Absorbs the essence of nature, is high in nutrients, and has a elastic crisp.

The creator of modern output value

Customary agriculture uses a large number of herbicides, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which destroy the natural ecosystem. After food is produced for consumption, a variety of human diseases have been created so that the medical industry can flourish. But such problems makes it hard for those poisoned to claim so.

Although it is a bad economic chain, it is increasingly consolidated because the consumer cares about the appearance of the product, and the producer cares about the profit of the harvest.

Certification and testing can not be guaranteed

Existing regulations regulate the amount of pesticide residues in agricultural products, and also prohibit the use of certain agents, but the drugs that can be used now are not guaranteed to not be used in the future. Natural farming methods follow this pattern, but with a lot more certification and are environmentally friendly. But the producer's desire to increase production and increase profit remains unchanged, and they'll only change ways to remove pests, so the will to kill pests remains unchanged.

Change starts from the heart

Human beings claim to be the masters of all things, and the concept of man's victory over heaven has been praised. In order to enrich the our lives, we have had unmoderated access to natural resources, which has led to environmental degradation. This has cause a gradually effect to daily life, and the freedom to choose one's living environment is continuously lost.

Although agricultural land occupies only a portion of our land, it is the closest environment for human beings to be with nature. We are also extremely capable of killing those we deem unnecessary. Of course, the existence of insects with our crops is not tolerated, so we’ve made many substances to ward off these pests.

People are also a part of nature, and individual results of our actions can be significant. The tolerance of man-made substances and natural poisons is also the same, so changing the way of agricultural production to produce non-toxic products is gradually chosen. The most common of which is the natural farming method, where the producer chooses to kill "pests" to ensure good harvest. As for what kind of agents can be used, only a bunch of certifications have been given, reaching a consensus that some man-made substances can not be detected.

Thus, in order to produce natural and healthy food, we must start from the heart. Abandon the mentality of control and let the crops grow as well as harvest in a natural environment. This agricultural method is the natural agricultural method.

Celestial movement is the basis for the natural system

The celestial bodies that are closely related to us are the Earth, the Moon and the Sun. The rotation of the earth takes place within a day, and the change of day and night also causes plate movement; the time around the sun is one year, and the orbit brings about changes in the four seasons; the moon orbits the earth in January, and its gravitational force can produce tidal changes. This system is quite regular, as cycle after cycle, human beings perceive these changing phenomena and formulate calendars as the basis for work and rest along with farming; while other organisms also have different ways of working and resting according to this cycle. They are internalized in our genes, so that they can continue to reproduce and maintain our world.

The system of celestial movement is the system of nature

The celestial movement itself is a circulatory system, with the sun supplying energy, and the moon changing the magnetic field, as well as the earth providing raw materials. All living things rely on these three to survive, and all living things return to dust after death. In this process, the fertility of plants have regular periodic changes, as the fertility of microorganisms and animals are the same, and the ecological chain co-constructed by the three is also a circulatory system. Thus, everything under the natural system is inherently useful, and one missing one will all members out of balance.

Agriculture is a basic human survival instinct

After humans learned to cultivate crops and raise animals, they gradually entered an agricultural society without food and clothing. Yet people still sought survival in the natural environment and seeked coexistence in harmony with them. After entering the industrial age, agriculture became industrialized. “Only chemical fertilizers and chemical agents should be cultivate crops”, because of this bias, agriculture and nature are separated, along with serious interferences with the natural ecosystem.

Learning to communicate with plants

Healthy plants rarely have diseases and pests. To cultivate healthy crops, one must first understand the environmental needs and physiological needs of crops. In order to take actions that meet the needs of the crops, communication with crops is a necessary skill for cultivators. But as crops do not speak, it is necessary to communicate with crops by looking at their color.

The first thing to understand is what crops look like when they are healthy. The parts above the soil are easiest to observe, such as the color, shape, strength of the leaves, the color and length of the stem, etc. Generally, we can tell the strongest crops by the fact that no insects feed on the plant. Carefully observe and note down its appearance in your mind, and repeat the observations and recordings at different phenological periods for comparison.

When a plant’s nutrients are out of balance, the leaves will show different characteristics, such as lighter leaf color, which may be caused by lack of nitrogen or lack of water. The thickness of the leaves is thinner, which may be from a lack of elements or insufficient sunshine. Each cultivated variety has different characteristics, so you need to spend time to investigate, but after accumulating enough experience, you can use natural materials or human measures to assist the healthy growth of crops.

Compost made from local materials

After the implementation of the natural farming method, homemade compost is safe and cheap. Its main raw material is organic matter such as the weeds and crop residues from farms. As long as the carbon-nitrogen ratio is adjusted, the minerals removed from the harvest, as well as the ore powder that reduces the acidity of the soil are compacted. It is best to add sieved garden soil, because it is rich in microorganisms and contains enough elements to accelerate the formation of compost, as well has having the elements in the soil be converted into an active state in the process.

Genetically modified crops and livestock waste are used only after decompostion

The most common genetically modified crops are soybeans,as soybean meal is a organic nitrogen fertilizer. Livestock waste is also a commonly used organic nitrogen fertilizer, but if it is made with the usage of formulated feed, the content of antibiotics and hormones is very high. If these two nitrogen sources are used to make compost, they need to be decomposed by microorganisms until they are completely decomposed to avoid damaging the soil ecology.

Compounding natural operation Sakutama management

The natural order has created a regular ecosystem. Plants have life and death, animals are also bound by this fate. These two in nature are paired well together; young caterpillars always have young leaves to eat, pupa butterflies can always pick nectar, so we can see there is a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship.

At the seed stage, the plant can feel movement and at the most appropriate time, it breaks out of its “armor”. It then takes root and grows rapidly. During the growth period, root growth and leaf growth have certain rules; after entering the growth period, the flowering period and fruit ripening period are also normal, which is the phenological period of the plant. The same plant has different phenological periods due to different conditions.

Field management is just to give plants a proper reproductive environment, with main requirements of being able to sow, transplant, fertilize, irrigate, prune, and harvest. This will cause the best results.

Required conditions for energy conversion (sunlight, moonlight)

Plants can use the energy converted from sunlight and store it inside themselves. Though some plants require direct sunlight to properly grow, while others do not require direct sunlight.

The moon's light is a refraction of the sun, gentle but also lively. Its brightness reaches its maximum on a full moon. It’s also the time where the gravitional pull is the highest, which has an unclear effect on plants and animals.

Agronomic crops do not require full sunlight

Agronomic crops refer to crops with a short growth period, so the natural height of these crops are not high, and can be densely planted to obtain the highest yield. It’s an important source of vegetables and fruits. Most of these crops have been adapted to the full-day environment through continuous selection by humans, so as to facilitate large-scale cultivation, but they also must invest more effort.