Kuaiwi Farm cultivates coffee plants that are more than a century old along with various fruit trees, vegetable gardents, taro patches, and even hydrangea flowers.
Also growing on Kuaiwi Farm are more than 100 cacao trees that are producing great chocolate.
Kuaiwi Farm offers farm tours as well as coffee tastings along with tasty samples of their products that include chocolate, jellies, chutneys, nuts, and fruits. Part of the farm tour fee can be applied to farm product purchases. Tour reservations must be arranged at least one day in advance.
The Kona coffee farms name, Kuaiwi, is the Hawaiian word that refers to a low rock mound that divides two taro fields. Kuaiwi Farm represents what a traditional Kona field system looked like before Western contact with the Hawaiian people.
The farm was originally owned by the mother of Hawaii’s former monarch King Kalakaua, who was named Keohokalole. Later the farm was sold by Reverend John D. Paris to H.N. Greenwell, and the Greenwell’s subsequently leased the farm to Mr. Kunitaro Motomura who planted the coffee trees around 1900.
Kuaiwi Farm is now an Organic Kona Coffee Farm and no herbicides or pesticides are used on the coffee plants. All of the coffee cherry (fruit) is picked by hand and then pulped and fermented. After fermentation the coffee is dried in the sun.
A drum coffee roaster is used to give a medium to dark roast to the coffee which is then packaged in one-way valve sealed bags.
Kuawi sells 100% Organic Kona Coffee (certified organic), and also sells raw organic macadamia nuts. Kuawi Farm has earned a first place in the Kona Coffee Cupping Competition in 2007 as well as a second place finish in 2008.
Kuaiwi Farm sells Kona coffee fruit (cherry), premium whole bean green Kona coffee, coffee parchment, roasted gourmet Kona coffee beans, and certified organic premium whole bean Kona coffee. Kuaiwi Farm is also a member of the Kona Coffee Farmers Association.
To read about more Kona Coffee Farms see Kona Coffee Farms, Tours, and Coffeehouses.
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