Kona Coffee

(Spring/Summer 1999) After writing for six years on the subject of Kona coffee and having expended countless number of hours lobbying and writing for the protection and preservation of our Kona...

 (999) When everything is finalized with the production of this magazine and all the coffee has been roasted and shipped out to my customers I can finally look forward to...

(Fall/Winter 1995-1996) Since the first issue of Coffee Times rolled off the press in April 1993 I pledged to myself to do everything possible to bring awareness to an issue that...

(March 1993) "Kona coffee has a richer flavor than any other, be it grown where it may and call it by what name you please."Mark Twain, 1866

(October 1994) The sweet smell of freshly pulped coffee cherry stagnates in the morning air as coffee shacks of decrepit weathered wood and their patchwork of tin roofs sit low in...

 (October 1993) The majority of the coffee in Kona is harvested between the months of July and December and many of the small mills that process the raw coffee cherries swing...

(2001) DID YOU KNOW that out of the 20 million pounds of Kona Coffee bought and consumed every year only 2 million pounds of that coffee is actually grown here in...

(October 1997) A bountiful 1997 Kona coffee harvest is upon us and strong growth in our industry seems to be upon us as well. The high demand for Kona coffee around...

 (Spring/Summer 2000) The new numbers now surrounding the Kona coffee industry are staggering. It was only 10 years ago that Kona coffee acreage dropped to a mere 1,200 acres as...

 (Fall/Winter 1999-2000) The "American Dream" was founded on the principals and idealism of equality, determination and freedom. Often the "American Dream" is associated with European immigrants leaving economic privation and political...

 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001)  With the final chapter being written in the fraudulent Kona coffee case; a state wide Hawaii Coffee association gaining momentum and planted acreage in Kona continuing to rise; farmers,...

(Fall/Winter 2000-2001) A ripe coffee bean - plump and red - signals harvest. Each year in Kona, where hand picking is the norm, one by one, the coffee beans come...

(Fall/Winter 2000-2001) If you're a coffee fanatic you probably use a French press coffee pot. It's a simple design that makes great coffee quickly and easily. Just place the fairly coarse...

 (Spring/Summer 2001) Former Kona Coffee Supplier Gets Jail Time, New Assurances Of Kona Coffee Purity ImplementedIn Oakland this past March, U.S. District Judge D. Lowell Jensen sentenced Michael Norton, 53, owner...

 (Spring/Summer 2001) Coffee in Kona has had a long history since the original plant was brought to the area by missionary Samuel Ruggles in 1828 and replaced by a Guatemalan variety...

 (Spring/Summer 2001) Within 2 centuries a lot of koa and ohia forests have either disappeared or have drastically been reduced in Kona. Once where nice stands of koa and ohia flourished,...

(Fall/Winter 2001-2002) The memory of my first Kona coffee experience still brings a smile to my face. I was living on The Big Island in Hilo at the time and working...

(Fall/Winter 2001-2002) During the last eight years of marketing Kona coffee I have encountered countless numbers of customers who share the same comical yet earnest sentiments about their refusal to leave...

(Fall/Winter 2001-2002) No one believed it was possible. No one had seen it done. But family farm owners Kraig and Sheryl Lee and Rae and Sandy Young proved that grafted...

 (Fall/Winter 2001-2002) The coffee plants’ nutritional needs fall within the planting and cultivation category and is one of the most important factors in improving the quality of coffee.