April 16, 2008_We run an intranet ad at the St. Louis Police Department

This is the year we want to try to really start selling our coffee. So far, there has been a lot of stuff to do that did not leave much time left over for “extras” like promotions. A friend of ours from St. Louis gave us a ring and offered to put us on a private internet and so this advertisement was created to meet that need. It follows through with the theme from the brochure...

March 2008_New business cards and a brochure

We decide it is time to get our brochure together and to re-make our business cards...

Here is an inside look of our three-fold brochure.
You can click in this sentence to download a full copy of our coffee farm brochure in PDF format to your computer.



Also, we thought the new version of our business card turned out very cute...

September thru December 2007, The Mill is Finished, We Sell Out of Our Prior Business for Good, Huller Get Installed at the farm

September 2007_We sell our building in St. Louis, after having owned it for 18 years. I mention it because having a Kona
Coffee farm like ours (almost 12 acres) is pretty much a full time hobby. So other distractions you have that take your
energy and time cannot “help” you with focusing on your farm. This transition is a welcome turn.

At the farm, we had a family that had moved in and they were supposedly to help, primarily with weeds. After slacking for almost a year they take a 3 week vacation in the middle of our heavy weed season -- after being asked to leave a few weeks prior. Amazing.

So we have been picking, weed whacking (although that chore was supposed to be “gone” surprise it is not gone), and winding up some old distractions.

October 2007_About to get all the pieces together. We have bags supposedly on the way. We got a sealer and a nice
weight scale at yard sales (did you know we are yard sale fanatics?). The huller got here from India last month and it should
get installed after the Kona Coffee Festival activities in early November.

November 29, 2007_Yes the huller did finally get to the mill and here is a picture of all the fanfare...later a guard is added but the machine is operational at this point...

April 2006, Friends Help Us With Our Work

Lawrence and Ikaka visit and get “Tom Sawyered” into helping. Besides coffee we have some wonderful citrus that we pick and enjoy during its season..

Here we see "Uncle Lawrence" who has a fruit picker that comes in very handy to reach up into the trees.




Ikaka (below) helped us many many days try to weed eat with the residential style whackers...

With those "hardware store" things you seemed to move just 40 or 50 feet after working all morning!