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By Mahina Mele Farm / January 14, 2014 / Comments Off on

Kona snow is back !!  Now I know everyone on the mainland might not be so thrilled at the mention of snow ( especially after that “polar vortex” whatever that is!), but we are delighted to see the snow in Kona.  Of course I am talking about the coffee flowering which comes in thick and…

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Mahina Mele farm on youtube

By Mahina Mele Farm / January 8, 2014 / Comments Off on Mahina Mele farm on youtube

We just had this video shot by the folks at Whole Foods.  This gives you a quick glance at our farm and what we do to produce kona rose coffee and Izzie Macs! macadamia nuts.  We are real happy with how the video turned out.  Thanks Whole Foods!

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Kona Coffee harvest

By Mahina Mele Farm / December 16, 2013 / Comments Off on Kona Coffee harvest

Slapped on our rigged picking buckets on the 5yr old, 7 yr old, and 10 yr old and headed out with my husband to pick coffee. What a joy! Ripe plumb and beautiful red jewels awaited us in the early morning light.  This is what I think of when I think of christmas time. Coffee,…

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Hawaiian Macadamia Nuts and Kona Coffee

By Mahina Mele Farm / December 7, 2013 / Comments Off on Hawaiian Macadamia Nuts and Kona Coffee

We are in the full harvest season. red lucous coffee berries being picked and macadmia nuts plopping tom the ground. Once picked the processing happens on the farm and shipped out immediately. The macadamia nuts are Raw , dehydrated at low temps, we also ahve organic macadamia nut butter and oil. Mahalo mahina mele farm

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By Mahina Mele Farm / October 28, 2013 / Comments Off on Mahina Mele farm

After one of the largest rainstorms we have had in years, the sky is so clear and the air is sweet. The fragrance of fruit blossoms and wet grass infiltrate the air. The sun is slowly drying us out as we live in a yurt with an outdoor kitchen. We have lived outdoors for about…

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By Mahina Mele Farm / October 24, 2013 / Comments Off on Mahina Mele Farm

Macadamias nut are falling and Im sitting in the dehydrating room, my office, at over 100 degrees. The coffee is also ripening and being processed. We are building another coffee drying deck, and getting ready to enter into the kona cupping contest. I love being a farmer and love what we are producing. Water I…

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Big aloha from Mahina Mele’s new WWOOFer

By Mahina Mele Farm / September 4, 2013 / Comments Off on Big aloha from Mahina Mele’s new WWOOFer

Alooohaa! My name is Lola Hylton and I am currently doing work-trade through the WWOOF Hawai’i program for Jason and Kollette Stith who own and operate Mahina Mele Farm, Kona’s largest certified organic macadamia nut farm, as well as the #1 macadamia nut processor on the Big Island! Not only are the wonderful Stith family…

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Anthuriums on the Big Island with Kona Rose Coffee

By Mahina Mele Farm / May 26, 2013 / Comments Off on Anthuriums on the Big Island with Kona Rose Coffee

We like a little R&R just as much as the next guy, but we usually take it with a bit of adventure.  So my son and I took a little jaunt through the woods to get some flowers  for mama.  Luckily for us we have a large chunk of virgin Hawaiian rainforest adjacent our farm.…

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Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) on Mahina Mele Farm 2013

By Mahina Mele Farm / May 24, 2013 / Comments Off on Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) on Mahina Mele Farm 2013

Jaboticaba fruit is delicious and it always brings a start of surprise when people see the tree covered in these juicy, purple globes.  As you can see from the flowers the jaboticaba tree flowers and produces fruit right from the branches and trunk!  It is spectacular when in bloom and when the  fruit is ripening.…

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Mountain apple (Syzygium malaccense) on Mahina Mele Farm 2013

By Mahina Mele Farm / May 23, 2013 / Comments Off on Mountain apple (Syzygium malaccense) on Mahina Mele Farm 2013

Continuing on our fruit tour of  Mahina Mele Farm, here is one we love to eat.   The mountain apple. This fruit was one of the “canoe plants”, plants  that the Polynesians brought with them when they colonized Hawaii. They brought plants that were important to them of course and plants that could survive the…

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