| Bright sunny mornings, humid rainy afternoons and | | | | of 600 farms, with the average size of a farm being |
| mild nights may not have the soundings of an Arabian | | | | no more than 5 acres, with a small loving workforce |
| night but they most certainly are the makings of one | | | | tending to the coffee bean crop. Also, unlike coffee |
| of the best arabica available on the market - Kona | | | | growers and harvesters elsewhere, Kona coffee |
| coffee. | | | | farmers typically still harvest their crop by hand, with |
| Kona, meaning "on the dry side of the land", can only | | | | few Kona coffee farmers resorting to machine to |
| be grown in the Kona districts of Hawaii, and are | | | | harvest their crop. The reason why most Kona |
| typically centred on Mount Hulalai and Muana Loa. | | | | coffee farmers prefer to harvest their crop by hand |
| Although grown from what was a Brazilian sapling | | | | is because they believe this loving and tender action |
| brought to Hawaii by Samuel Reverend Ruggles in | | | | adds to the quality of the coffee bean that so |
| the early 19th Century, Kona is now world famous | | | | enriches the coffee drinking experience that each |
| for its distinctive taste, which it acquires from the | | | | Kona coffee taster feels when they first experience |
| unique Hawaiian Archipelago. | | | | the delight of having a cup of coffee made from the |
| Typically, coffee is not conducive to growing in any | | | | unique coffee beans of Kona province Hawaii. |
| weather and needs its own particular weather | | | | Kona coffee is not to be confused then with Kona |
| pattern in order to both grow and produce the | | | | blended coffee, as the two are not the same. Strictly |
| special blend of taste and aroma that makes it | | | | speaking, in order to be called "Kona coffee" the |
| popular among coffee lovers the world over. Insofar | | | | coffee bean has to be grown and harvested in Kona |
| as Kona goes, being in the unique geographic location | | | | district. However, given the popularity of it and the |
| that it is fortunately gives it the ideal blend of | | | | general limitations on growing the crop, a number of |
| weather to produce all of these elements. | | | | coffee wholesalers have resorted to selling them in |
| Although highly regarded the world over, it is | | | | blended form. More often than not, the blended form |
| cultivated in a fairly small amount each year - with | | | | of is a mixture of either a Brazilian or Columbian (as |
| only about 2 million pounds grown annually. However, | | | | two of the world's biggest coffee producers) bean |
| each pound of Kona coffee is loving tended on one | | | | with the Kona bean itself. |