Our farm is called Himshikhar Coffee Bagan. We have 0.5 ha at 1,000–1,200m ASL with trees aged 3–26 years. Our coffee is cared for by our treasured five employees – three women and two youth.
Our farm - Himshikhar Coffee Bagan
The coffee is hand-picked and sun-dried to produce parchment and green beans. Our output was 1 ton in 2021 and we expect to increase to 4 ton by 2025.
Himshikhar Coffee Bagan is on the northern fringe of Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, in the Kathmandu Valley. It is blessed with ample rain, high elevation, rich, fertile land, and likhu, the second largest river in Nuwakot, Gangchenpo and Ganesh Himalaya.
The mountains, rivers, forests and sounds of the birds are magical and captivating. Our coffee grows with the majestic mountains that rise above the sun, in swirling clouds and light off the snow peaks.
We are proud to serve our glorious, high mountain, single origin Arabica. It grows among bright oranges, delicious mangos, and lime trees with their beautiful, glossy green foliage, fragrant flowers, and honeybees that forage for nectar and pollen.
We have two coffee washing stations (CWS) to process our coffee. One is just 1km from our farm in Nuwakot; the other pulps and hulls the coffee in Kathmandu at 800-1,000m ASL.
Our coffee has unique, clean, and mild flavours with a fruity fragrance, and a long, sweet aftertaste.
Supporting our smallholder farmers
We source single origin coffee from local smallholder farmers, as well as blended coffee cherries and parchment from 30 farmers in Sindhupalchok, Nuwakot, and Kavre.
They consist of 20 women and 10 youth growers with an average of 17 trees on 0.3 ha each.
Our small-scale coffee farmers and workers use their income to buy cows, buffalos, and goats as livestock and for milk, and to send their children to school.
We encourage small-scale farmers to plant coffee by creating coffee groups and cooperatives for sustainability and empowerment.
Our small-scale farmers are not well educated. So, we support them with personal development and self-employment training to help them generate other income sources. They make handmade natural products like bamboo straw and coffee mugs.
Himshikhar also pays above market rates for farmers’ harvested coffee cherries because they are fundamental to growing coffee.
Himshikhar Coffee focuses on getting procedures right at every step to ensure outstanding coffee.
We use cow and buffalo compost fertilizer and green manure to nourish the soils, and integrated disease, pest control and organic pesticides.
Our coffee quality is maintained as our careful workers hand-pick, hand sort, pulp and fully wash the coffee. Then they lay it out to dry in the sun until the parchment moisture is 11%.
We believe that our farmers produce some of the finest high mountain coffees. We train them in quality coffee production to ensure better prices for them and excellent coffee for our customers.
Himshikhar Coffee Bagan and farmers maintain the ICS internal management system for organic certification.
We are also building a homestay coffee farm to promote agro tourism in Nepal.
Growing specialty coffee
