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New planting includes papaya and gliricidia and
look out Cuba... a Kauai cigar is born!
Hello everyone,
Winter is staring us down here in Kauai. This may sound a bit far-fetched coming from someone living in the subtropics, but winter makes itself felt in Hawaii with the arrival of heavy rains, a dip in daytime temperatures into the 70's, the return of the humpback whales, and wild thundering surf rolling into the north shore.
As we turn the page from fall to winter here in Hawaii, the coffee harvest is not quite over yet. One more large round of coffee remains on the trees. All in all, this has been a very early and short year for coffee, both at Blair Estate and in Kona on the Big Island. After last year's record breaking yield, we're enjoying a much more manageable harvest this year.
We are once again happy to announce the availability of Blair Estate Organic coffee, which has been sold out since early summer! Thank you for your patience. We urge you to act now and secure a batch of these truly amazing beans.
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Bean by bean, customer by customer. The Blair Estate Motto. Here is how we selectively grade our green coffee for roast.
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Another exciting bit of news is that Blair Estate will add more acreage to our organic farm, courtesy of the State of Hawaii and a 30 year lease. We plan to expand our coffee orchards next year and have planted a crop of sunrise papaya trees in the interim. We are also wrapping up construction on our permanent wet mill. We've faced some challenges in the processing and drying of coffee at the farm, so we're excited about having a new building to house our coffee pulping and sun drying operations.
Cacao pods at Blair Estate. We make our own chocolate too, but unfortunately not enough to sell.
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Blair Estate nursery containing coffee, tobacco, and papaya
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Star Fruit growing at Blair Estate coffee farm.
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