In 2001 we packed up all our stuff and moved to the big Island of Hawaii in hopes of becoming coffee farmers. We rented a house in Kailua-Kona until we found five acres at the right elevation that could be conducive to coffee farming and legally carry the name “Kona Coffee”. We spent 4 years there and at the end we had coffee trees that we had raised from beans that were 14 feet tall. Here is some of the photos and stories we accumulated during our time in paradise.
This is the first thing we saw after turning of the road to what would become our new coffee farm in Honomalino-South Kona Hawaii
We saw a line of mature Sharwil variety of avocado trees
The main house
The ohana driveway
Milolii, just makai (towards the ocean) from our coffee farm
Honomalino Beach Path
The Sacred Site on the path from Milolii to Honomalino Beach
The Sacred Site on the path from Milolii to Honomalino Beach
The path from Millolii to Honomalino Beach
Honomalino Beach
Honomalino Bay
Honomalino Bay
Orchids, plumeria and bougainvillea everywhere
The view from the main house of the ohana.
The view out of the ohana. that is ocean out beyond the greenness
You can’t actually stick a shovel or plow in the ground at 2000 feet elevation on the slopes of Mauna Loa
