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'Apapane Coffee Awarded 3rd Best Kona Heritage Coffee
The 2024 Kona Coffee and Cultural Festival conducts an annual blind tasting competition open to all 700 farms in the Kona district on the...
dickbottorff
Nov 22, 20241 min read
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Disaster Strikes Maui
We are heartbroken to see from afar the loss of life, damages and dislocations that have impacted our neighbors on the island of Maui....
dickbottorff
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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Kona Snow and More Cherries
The Kona Low rain event in late December sent 6 1/2 inches of rain our way and as a result we had a full flowering of Kona Snow by...
dickbottorff
Jan 26, 20231 min read
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'Apapane Coffee Farm Awarded 8th Best Kona Coffee
In the annual blind tasting at the 2022 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival, our traditional washed Typica was awarded the 8th best coffee...
dickbottorff
Dec 5, 20221 min read
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18 Coffee Pickers and 3 Days
After 3 days and today 18 pickers on site, we are wrapping up a solid picking of the 5 acres. Our pickers are from Micronesia and very...
dickbottorff
Oct 8, 20221 min read
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Buy this 100 pound bag!
OK. It's only 96 pounds of parchment, but the bag on the left has 92 pounds and we'll gladly send you a sample of our green 100% Kona...
Richard
Aug 13, 20221 min read
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Who likes dirt?
This is mulched dirt from years of avacado leaves and branches that fell on the ground, with added wood from avacado branches we chipped...
Richard
Aug 12, 20221 min read
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What's a perennial peanut?
We've begun to transplant perennial peanuts on 'Apapane Coffee Farm, a gift from our kind neighbor, Deb. These plants affix nitrogen in...
Richard
Aug 9, 20221 min read
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