Coffee Farmer Bharat Rai is feeling good about his coffee production and growing income! Collective coffee processing will be happening for the first time in December 2023! CLN’s earliest coffee bushes are mature and thousands more are just beginning to produce...
Raising awareness about gender-based violence and women’s rights through Community Based Education including with this local women’s group. We’re delighted with CLN's progress in Nepal this year and have exciting news to share! Our macadamia nut...
Macadamia farmer Bindu Darji has a big smile because she just sold 22 lbs of freshly harvested nuts for nearly $100, and in rural Nepal that’s good earnings! Bindu Darji wins! She and her family of five have three mature macadamia trees, which produced 62 lbs. of nuts...
Coffee Farmer Prem Kumari Gautam Prem Kumari Gautam is 64 years old, and she has 300 coffee bushes and a family of 7 living at home. Not all of her coffee plants are producing yet, but she earned $160 from harvest at the beginning of this year (a 25% increase on...
Organic Coffee Farmer Exposure Visit Coffee farmers exposure visit…and coffee cherries drying in the sun. In February, we sponsored an exposure visit to educate our lead organic coffee farmers on a new method of coffee cherry processing. Only one coffee farm in Nepal...
Lila Karki shows off her first macadamia nut harvest; coffee ripening on the bush and plant care. In 2021, CLN trained 117 coffee and nut farmers on pruning, pest management, and making organic compost to increase plant production. We are proud that about one-third of...
Sonam Sherpa checks the coffee on one of his bushes. He planted this coffee bush 6 years ago. This year Sonam earned over $200 from coffee, and he expects to be earning more next year as his plants mature. The annual per capita income in Nepal is ~$1000 so $200 is...
Deana talks with farmers about finding a market for organic coffee. We stay personally involved with our projects and regularly visit farmers in remote areas of Nepal. On the most recent field visit, CLN donors Bill Winfield and Armanita Dhooghe joined Deana for a...
Management committee of a coffee farmers group. CLN has helped organize the farmer groups and get them registered with the local government. This is Year 4 of the Organic Coffee Project. We have added 80 new farmers in the...
Top Producing Coffee Farmer in 2019: Dil Kumar Tamang.Photo credit: A. Dhooghe Coffee farmer Dil Kumar Tamang sold around $2000 of coffee this year from 600 trees. These first trees were planted in 2015, and he now has 4000 younger trees that will begin to produce in...
Clockwise from top: Children’s Home kids, coffee farmer, coffee beans, warm welcome in a coffee village. Wow--what a year! We have seen our first children graduate high school (at Grade 10 in Nepal). Our coffee sample scored 84 in initial US taste tests for specialty...
Let’s celebrate!! CLN has been working in Nepal for 10 years—and it’s because of YOU that we can celebrate this success! With your support, we’ve granted $326,889 over the last decade and have turned an initial desire to improve the lives of rural...
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