Welcome to our little farm in South Kona on Hawaii Island. We bought this small property in 2013 and made our move to the island in January 2015. At that time, the decades-old coffee trees had been mostly neglected. It took about three years to get the three hundred trees into a productive state again. Since then, we have refined the coffee groves and now maintain about two hundred and fifty coffee trees that provide a harvest of roughly two hundred pounds of finished coffee beans each year. We do all the work ourselves, from fertilizing to pruning, in an annual cycle that includes fragrant blossoms in January/February, ripening berries all summer, and harvest of “cherry” from August through October. We pick it, clean it, ferment it, dry it, and then clean it again, removing damaged beans to achieve the most flavorful coffee we can. After all, we drink our own coffee, so we want it to be the best! What we don’t drink ourselves, we sell.
We have added quite a bit of diversity to the farm over the years. We have a variety of fruit and tropical edibles trees (lime, lemon, orange, tree tomato, fig, mountain apple, jaboticaba, papaya, mango, cacao, banana, and others), a vegetable garden, English Angora rabbits that provide fiber, and are constantly experimenting with new varieties and grafted plants.
Products currently available for sale can be found here.
We hope you enjoy the website and Tim’s blog entries related to the coffee and cacao, and if we can be of any help in answering questions about small acreage farming in Hawaii, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
Heartfelt Kona Coffee 