100% Kaua'i | Kaua'i Koa Farm | Hurricane Relief Harvest
100% Kaua'i | Kaua'i Koa Farm | Hurricane Relief Harvest
Farming on Kauaʻi comes with deep beauty, but also intense vulnerability. In the wake of Hurricane Lowell, Kauai Koa Farm sustained severe damage, losing roughly half of its magnificent hardwoods, over half of its coffee trees, and almost the entirety of this year’s upcoming crop.
Krista and Sandy have poured their hearts into this land, and right now, they need our community’s support.
To help them navigate the months ahead and rebuild what was lost, we are making the remaining crop from last year available to you. 100% of the profits of this coffee will go to Sandy and Krista to help re-build and re-plant This coffee represents the strength of the land before the storm and the hope for its renewal.
When you buy a bag today, you are directly investing in the future of Kauai Koa Farm and helping Krista and Sandy weather this storm.
4oz/114g
medium roast
Milk Chocolate, delicate and sweet
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Sandy & Krista
That’s when we met Sandy and Krista Brodie at Kaua’i Koa Farms. The Brodies are fourth generation Kaua’i farming family. Sandy had taken over 10 acres of family land up in the mountains on the North Shore outside of Princeville that had previously been sugarcane and pineapple but converted to cattle pasture for decades. Not wanting to ranch cattle sandy decided to reforest the land with hardwood trees. In the late 1990’s he started planting native Koa and trees from all around the world. Amongst the hardwood trees he had accumulated some coffee trees from HARC on Oahu and Kona.
Sandy and Krista really align with our values of sustainability, stewardship of the land and education. With years of careful stewardship and implementing regenerative organic techniques such as mulching and biochar they have cultivated rich and vibrant soils and a diverse ecosystem that is a sanctuary for birds, insects and flora.
In 2020 we met at a farmers market and he invited me to check out his farm as they had been thinking about planting more coffee for a while but was unsure about the processing and roasting of the coffee for a commercial venture. That’s when we all decided to plant more trees and work as a team, the Brodies bringing their land and farming experience along with my passion for processing and experience as a roasting company. We set up a nursery of about 400 trees a mix of red, yellow and pink Bourbon and typica and now 3 years in we have had our first limited harvest with more trees coming online and more planned to go in the ground in the fall the adventure of coffee at Kaua’i Coffee farm has just begun.
