Where does Kona Coffee come from Hawaii? what are the best estates that produce Hawaiian Kona Coffee?

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According to a newly released selection by USA Today, the famous Hawaiian Kona Coffee Farm on the Big Island of Hawaii-Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms beat the food factory trip of many international well-known food brands and was selected as one of the "Ten Best Food Factory Tour in the United States". This honor once again puts Kona Coffee Coffee on the dazzling stage, letting more coffee lovers know and know Kona Coffee from the Big Island of Hawaii. Every November, a grand Kona Coffee Festival is held on the Big Island of Hawaii to celebrate the harvest of coffee and to promote Kona coffee culture to tourists from all over the world. Today, we will join Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms Coffee Farm to learn about the whole process of sowing, growing, harvesting and making coffee beans in Kona Coffee, and experience the wonderful journey of "farm to coffee cup" (From Farm to Cup).

Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms Kona Coffee Farm, located on the Big Island of Hawaii, was founded in 1850. The founder Greenwell family emigrated from Britain to Kona, Hawaii, where they engaged in coffee and animal husbandry. It was also one of the first Kona coffee farms in the world to export Kona coffee to the United States and even Europe. Today, Tom Greenwell continues to run the family Kona coffee business, and the farm has grown into one of the few large Kona coffee origins.

The climate in the Kona region of the Big Island of Hawaii is perfect for protecting the growth of young coffee trees, and small coffee seedlings grow slowly in Greenwell's elaborate greenhouse. Although the core of the Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms farm is Hawaiian Kona coffee, the farm often tries to grow other crops, such as green peppers, cocoa beans and taro. Small Kona coffee saplings usually take several years to grow into coffee trees and bear coffee fruit.

Even coffee lovers, many people may not know that the aroma of coffee flowers is also very charming, even a short bloom will emit a unique aroma. If you are lucky, you can also see the white coffee flowers on the Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms farm. Every coffee tree on the farm has been carefully built and cultivated, each coffee flower will bear a coffee fruit, this small coffee fruit will produce two coffee beans, isn't it amazing!

January, February and March are the rainy season in Hawaii. Rows of coffee trees are instantly covered with white coffee flowers. From afar, it looks as if the trees are covered with white snowflakes, also known locally as "Kona Snow". Although different coffee trees bloom at different times, many studies on coffee cultivation in recent years have helped local farms try to make all coffee trees bloom at the same time. This advantage is: to facilitate the later more efficient large-scale picking of coffee fruit, but also to ensure the best quality coffee beans.

Experienced coffee pickers will pick and screen a single coffee fruit themselves, and many of the pickers at Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms Farm are employees with more than 25 years of experience. Picking by hand is still an ancient method, but it is also one of the guarantees of high-quality Kona coffee. In addition, the ripening state of each coffee fruit is different, which makes it difficult for the farm to use machines to pick coffee fruits in bulk. Interestingly, farms have also found that experienced female pickers tend to be the best pickers. As for the short stories of picking coffee beans during the harvest season, you might as well go to the farm to learn about them.

The picked coffee fruit needs to be treated. At present, the two main methods are sun-drying and water-wet method. In the sun-drying method, the coffee fruit is directly exposed to the sun to dry, and finally the moisture content is reduced to 11%. The water-wet method uses a pulp washer to wash off the peel and pulp of the coffee fruit and then dry it or dry it directly in the sun. Coffee beans have gone through many manual procedures at this stage, and the strict quality control of each step is also a necessary guarantee for top coffee beans.

The roasting technology of coffee is also an art in itself, and the roaster determines whether the coffee beans are roasted properly by sound, color and taste. Timing is the key. Baking time affects the color and taste of the final product, so the baking time depends on what kind of coffee you want.

Finally, after vacuum packaging, to maximize the freshness of coffee beans, a packet of high-quality 100% Kona coffee beans will be produced! Greenwell Kona Coffee Farms Farm offers free farm tours to all customers who come to the farm, watching the coffee production process and tasting all kinds of Kona coffee for free. Whether you like coffee or not, the whole process of this small coffee bean from cultivation and sprouting to roasting into a fine coffee bean is a farm trip that can't be missed!

After a visit to the free Kona Coffee Farm in Hawaii, visitors can enjoy Kona coffee for free and buy some as travel souvenirs at the gift shop if they like.