Kona Coffee Farm Uses St Croix-Barbados Sheep To Help With Weed Control
Old Hawaiian Coffee is grown on a ten-acre Kona Coffee farm in Honaunau in the southern region of Kona Coffee Country on the western slopes of Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Old Hawaiian Coffee farm uses organic coffee growing methods and is owned by the Misha Sperka and the Sperka family who use no herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or GMO.
A small herd of St Croix-Barbados short haired sheep help with weed control on the farm, which was originally called the Peaberry Farm until the name was changed in 1991. Coffee has been grown on this coffee farm since the 1830s.
All Old Hawaiian coffee is process and roasted on the farm, and they also process coffee for about twenty other Kona coffee farms using filtered chlorine water and separate soaking bins for each batch of coffee beans.
Old Hawaiian Coffee even made their own electric hot air coffee roaster that avoids the problem with a gas roaster which tends to put smelly agents on the beans. Mylar bags are used for packaging rather than plastic to avoid BPA chemicals that may leach from plastics. Roasting is done daily.
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Call ahead for Kona coffee farm tour reservations and more detailed directions. Old Hawaiian Coffee sells roasted whole bean gourmet Kona coffee. Old Hawaiian Coffee produces certified organic Kona Coffee and is a member of the Kona Coffee Farmers Association.
To read about more Kona Coffee Farms see Kona Coffee Farms, Tours, and Coffeehouses.