Coconut Palm Sugar Farm
A short boat trip from Tha Kha floating market is a small coconut palm sugar farm. Instead of a motorised boat, use the relaxing rowing boat tour through the quiet and green canals, with views of local farmland and houses.
Many of the coconut palm plantations here are smallholdings, running a cottage industry process whereby each household makes their own coconut palm sugar from their small plots of coconut palm trees.
The sap from the coconut palms is collected daily, and it’s then boiled over wood-fired basins in an open-sided shed. It’s hot work! The sap is transferred from basin to basin as it reduces, until it finally turns into a thick sticky boiling mass. As it cools, it solidifies into crumbly, golden-hued coconut sugar, usually sold in solid blocks to be grated on use.
Coconut Palm Sugar Farm
A short boat trip from Tha Kha floating market is a small coconut palm sugar farm. Instead of a motorised boat, use the relaxing rowing boat tour through the quiet and green canals, with views of local farmland and houses.
Many of the coconut palm plantations here are smallholdings, running a cottage industry process whereby each household makes their own coconut palm sugar from their small plots of coconut palm trees.
The sap from the coconut palms is collected daily, and it’s then boiled over wood-fired basins in an open-sided shed. It’s hot work! The sap is transferred from basin to basin as it reduces, until it finally turns into a thick sticky boiling mass. As it cools, it solidifies into crumbly, golden-hued coconut sugar, usually sold in solid blocks to be grated on use.