A Letter From The Coffee Grower's Daughter
Grown by our family in Việt Nam’s highlands for 40 years. Roasted in Salem, Oregon, since 2016.
In her own words
Growing up in the highlands of Vietnam as the oldest daughter of poor coffee farmers, hard work and perseverance became a big part of my life. I want to share my endless ambitions with you, our valued customers, and our community.
Coffee has always been at the heart of everything I have done. I spent most of my childhood on the farm, often sleeping through the night beneath a plastic tarp strung between two coffee trees. From the age of six, I helped my father plant coffee trees, and every season his work ethic and ambition brought us and the coffee closer together. After a childhood spent beneath coffee trees, I have learned first hand the Truth about coffee. My life journey has always been lined with coffee trees, and my goal now is to help others taste the Truth of Bon Mua Oregon Coffee.
In a world where sustainability and profitability are becoming synonymous, we know that our success is inextricably tied to the prosperity of our customers, employees, and the communities around them. Every dollar made by Bon Mua Oregon will be shared to support local charities & support the Education Foundation established by our team. As we continue to grow, we can promise that our customers, growers, and our community will be at the center of everything we do.
— Lan Marberry
Lan Marberry, the coffee grower’s daughter
As a six-year-old, Lan spent long hours under a tarp strung between coffee trees, working alongside her father on the family’s hillside farm in the highlands of Southwest Vietnam — land that sits roughly one mile above sea level. Years later, after settling in Salem, she joined a trade delegation to Asia. That trip led to the founding of Bon Mua Oregon, bringing coffee from that same family farm to the Willamette Valley.
Her path ran through service and study: a Ford Family Foundation grant took her to the University of Oregon, and she went on to earn an MBA at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management — in a language that is not her first. She has pledged 10 to 15 percent of the company’s profits to nonprofit causes for children and the elderly. Her husband, John Marberry, a retired firefighter, works alongside her.
Forty years of family farming
“My father has been a coffee grower for 40 years, and that’s where I spent my early years. Everything came from coffee.” — Lan Marberry
That heritage travels farm-direct from the highland provinces of Dak Lak and Lam Dong to our roastery in Salem, where we’ve roasted since 2016. On the farm, ripe cherries are pulped, fermented in tall ceramic jars, and dried in the sun. Flowering black pepper vines grow among the coffee as a natural deterrent to pests — in place of harmful chemicals.
We work with growers we know and trust, including the SAC Chưkbo cooperative in Dak Lak.
From our family’s farms to your cup
Learn how we grow arabica and robusta, or shop coffee roasted this week in Salem.