Here we are at the coffee farm - Hea
venly Hawaiian. They are former YWAMers and decided to start a coffee farm - after getting advice from an angel. We toured the whole process of the coffee bean. You can hopefully tell the process - I unfortunately couldn't get the pictures to go in order. It starts with the little trees - the ones shown are arabica and the three larger trees are robusta - from africa. The then grow to produce the red cherries. After 7 months, the cherries are picked and they go through the wet mill. They then lay them out to dry out - those are the tan colored beans - most cherries have one bean that is split in half but there are a few rare berries that don't produce a complete bean and those are called peaberries - a rare coffee. After a while of drying - which they are hard enough to step on - they turn a bit green and get bagged. They sit an age for as long as you like - it gives different flavors to the beans depending on where and how they are stored - and then they get roasted and put in our bellies. This is a short version of the coffee bean process but it's so interesting to see it happen right in front of your eyes - hopefully these pictures help in understanding the farm process. Click on the link - KONA COFFEE - to see more pictures in Flickr - please check them out - the coffee farm pics are done by me and all the other random pics are Dustin.
venly Hawaiian. They are former YWAMers and decided to start a coffee farm - after getting advice from an angel. We toured the whole process of the coffee bean. You can hopefully tell the process - I unfortunately couldn't get the pictures to go in order. It starts with the little trees - the ones shown are arabica and the three larger trees are robusta - from africa. The then grow to produce the red cherries. After 7 months, the cherries are picked and they go through the wet mill. They then lay them out to dry out - those are the tan colored beans - most cherries have one bean that is split in half but there are a few rare berries that don't produce a complete bean and those are called peaberries - a rare coffee. After a while of drying - which they are hard enough to step on - they turn a bit green and get bagged. They sit an age for as long as you like - it gives different flavors to the beans depending on where and how they are stored - and then they get roasted and put in our bellies. This is a short version of the coffee bean process but it's so interesting to see it happen right in front of your eyes - hopefully these pictures help in understanding the farm process. Click on the link - KONA COFFEE - to see more pictures in Flickr - please check them out - the coffee farm pics are done by me and all the other random pics are Dustin.
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