Mr.
Chatree
Saeyang

P’Chatree is a third-generation farmer who grows coffee in Khun Chang Kian Villages, Chiang - Mai. This village is known to many as one of the first coffee plantation areas in Thailand with the first coffee research station being built here in 1968.

It wasn’t until six years ago that people around here began farming coffee. Since there were a lot of coffee trees on my farm, I found myself asking the question of “Why don’t I try processing my own coffee?”. I spent the first two years processing coffee without thinking much about how to improve the quality. However, after a conversation about specialty coffee with P’Tee from Graph Café and P’Sanchai, I realized how coffee processing could add more value to the beans. So I started learning how to make specialty coffee and attended almost every coffee event I could go to. I talked to a lot of people in the industry and tried to get to know the entire process as much as I can.

He’s been processing his coffee for three years now and his coffee even won the first prize at The Specialty Coffee Association of Thailand (SCATH) competition.