City girls helping with coffee and nuts on Mahina Mele Farm

Last week two wonderful girls landed on our farm to work, Two girls with little to no experience actually working on a farm. They came positive and willing to learn, the two key traits that brings anyone to, a place of self growth and satisfaction. They have been pruning coffee, mulching, dragging branches, husking macadamia,…

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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 loves the Rain

At 1700 ft above sea level we get the best of both worlds, shade from cloud coverage for the coffee and rain. 60+/- inches of year is perfect for coffee.. We have had lots of rain the past few days, the coffee flowers are bursting and lots of new growth.  As Im enjoying my Kona…

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beautiful coffee flowers

Here are a few photos of coffee in different stages of flowering. Coffee  (coffea arabica) is in the gardenia family, so not only are these flowers beautiful to look at, they have an incredible fragrance when fully open.   I mentioned that we refer to the fully-blooming coffee as Kona snow.  When the Kona snow is…

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