Una Greenaway and Leon Rosner have a Kona Coffee pedigree that is hard to beat. Last year Kuaiwi Farm won the Gevalia Cup, placing first by a wide margin, and this year they placed second. The consistent excellence of their coffee owes as much to the integrity of their organic farming as to the rich soil of their incredible location. Kuaiwi Farm is in Captain Cook, up Koa Road and tucked away into a five acre corner of the mountain off Bamboo Road. Their neighbors have pedigree too - award winning coffees J Yokoyoma (Kona Bob), Pau Hana Coffee and Koa Farms are all on this same ahupuaa, this same wedge of land. In the picture above you can see Una And Leon with a 100 pound bag of green coffee.
Una and Leon are meticulous about their coffee, picking the beans themselves at the peak of ripeness. Their coffee can be ordered over the internet at www.kuaiwifarm.com or by calling 808 - 328- 8888. Above you see Una out among her coffee trees. 
There is much more to their farm than coffee. They grow taro, cocao, and make their own chocolate, macadamia nut butter, and lilikoi (passion fruit) jelly, all of which can be ordered over the internet. They live in two geodesic domes attached by a connective structure. The Devil Dog was amazed at the beauty of their property, their sheer determination to live in paradise on terms that are at one with their natural environment. It is an idyllic, committed, joyous and hard working existence.
Their property even contains a number of jaboticaba trees, a South American fruit similar to acai, whose fruit grows right on the bark of the tree, as seen in the picture above, and which tastes indescribably delicious, like a ripe plum meets a concord grape.
Una and Leon will produce about 1500 pounds of ultra quality coffee, which they call Kona Old Style, and which almost always sells out every season. In addition to their stellar achievement in and commitment to Kona coffee they exemplify a lifestyle that is in sync with the very essence of what modern life in Hawaii can be if you seek it out.
The day the Devil Dog showed up they were making chocolate in the kitchen....actual chocolate from cacao they grow themselves, an enormously special and complicated process involving harvesting and fermenting the cacao bean. You say you never saw a cacao bean before. Neither had the Devil Dog. Thats it in the picture above, a particularly large and ripe pod from one of many cacao trees on their farm
Be sure to visit their website....www.kuaiwifarm.com. Mahalo.
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