rajncajn Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 (edited) My mom sent me this yesterday. Thought it was pretty cool: [Quote] The coffee trees on the bottom half of our farm were planted about 150 years ago, according to my neighbor, Glenn. His grandparents planted them. They migrated here from Japan, sometime around 1865, to work the sugar cane plantations. They left the cane fields along with many others, to work for themselves, planting seeds brought from Guatemala. That information is all documented and can be verified on Google, if you're interested. Glenn told me that he picked the coffee from this farm, when he was a kid. Half the farm (2 acres) is covered in these old stumps. Most of them are still producing, and being picked by us and our workers since we bought these acres in 1984. In 1989, the one time we entered our coffeebeans in the "Kona Coffee Contest" held yearly on the Big Island, we won '3rd place'. When we bought this farm, we didn't even know it had coffee growing on it. At the time it was completely overgrown and abandoned. We didn't know it had once been a coffee farm! Here are a few pics of some of these original 'stumps'..[/quote] Edited May 24, 2023 by rajncajn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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