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...

January 2007, A Coffee Seminar on Tree Pruning and work continues on our mill at the South side coffee farm

January 2007_Seminars and work on the mill continues...


We go to a coffee tree trimming seminar January 6 2007, with featured speaker Bob Smith.
Bob Smith actually came up to our farm just before we got possession and advised us of the REAL condition of the trees (we had thought big and tall trees were just extra healthy -- but really it indicated many had simply not been trimmed for years -- but with some hard work you can correct that at least)...


January 12th 2007, the parchment storage room is in progress (it is at the very back)...The forward area is the dry mill section where the roaster, huller, etc. will go.

January 2006, Our first attendance of an Election at the Kona Coffee Council Turns Out to Make A Bit of Kona Coffee History

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January 2006_The Kona Coffee Council “is taken over”

Our first real meeting and it became quiet a controversy. Apparently lots of “proxy” voting that upset lots of people.

Lots of people left the KCC and a new organization the KCFA was born.

There are some farmers who stay members of both groups.

Visit the KCC on the web.
Visit the KCFA on the web.


01/21/06, Many of the candidates for office are in this shot -- which at the time we did not know would become know as the ” takover of the KCC.“

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