End of Season

Last week the rest of the coffee cherry was picked and processed. Today the coffee parchment was dry enough to put away in storage. And that ends the coffee season for us. This is very early and unfortunately our crop was reduced along with most of the other Kona coffee farmers for various reasons. Extreme pruning to try to control coffee leaf rust was the primary reason for our lower production numbers.

On the bright side, we now have a buyer for the bulk of our macadamia nuts. Our previous buyer is no longer buying macadamia nuts from farmers and we were left with a large crop and no place to sell it. We did process a lot more nuts than usual and now have a nice store of roasted and vacuum packed nuts. They will be on sale soon, in time for customers to stock up on macadamia nuts for the holidays.