News from Huahua Farm

Welcome to the new Huahua Farm website.

This time of the year, we are in the middle of both coffee and macadamia nut production. Coffee just picked off the tree is called coffee cherry - as can be seen in the many photos of coffee, it looks like cherry fruit. We are selling about 75% of our production as coffee cherry and we process and roast the rest for sale.

Usually we sell about 90% of our macnut production as “wet in shell” - picked up off the ground, put in a bag and sold to a macadamia nut processor. Unfortunately, due to reduced sales of the processor, we received a notice that they are only processing nuts from their acreage and not accepting any from small farms like ours. We usually sell approximately 14,000 pounds as wet in shell. The two other processors on the island are in the same situation.

Now, we have a large problem. This past Sunday, our pickers brought in 28 bags of nuts. Each bag holds about 55 pounds. Fortunately we have a macadamia nut husker, so I started running macnuts through the husker yesterday. So far there are 7 empty bags - just 21 to go. We have decided to husk the nuts, float them to toss bad nuts, and spread them to dry on the coffee drying tables. After a few weeks they will be dry enough to store for many months. Hopefully, by 2nd quarter 2021 the processors will be able to start purchasing nuts again.

Enjoy our website and let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Aloha