In 2002, Lee and Karen Paterso decided to find out what it takes to create a world class coffee farm. The bought an 11 acre cow pasture in Kona, Hawaii.They bulldozed the property and planted 7000 coffee trees. Three years later, we harvested the first crop. It wasn’t great coffee, but it had promise.
In 2008, we hired a coffee expert from Minnesota (It helped that snow was just beginning to fall in Minneapolis.) We also retained a soil consultant from the Napa Valley wine industry. In late 2008, the Kona Sweet coffee was reviewed as one of the top six coffees in the world. In September 2008, they bought a 20 acre pasture at 2500 feet on the slope of the Hualalai Volcano. Before we planted it, we spent a year tasting different varieties of coffee. After we identified the coffee varieties that we thought were outstanding, we went hand picked the coffee seeds. We planted those seeds and will be harvesting our first crop in the next few years.
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