Malama ‘Aina

Malama ‘aina means to care for our island home. As a small estate farm, we not only grow our coffee on this land, we live on it too. 

My daughter plays hide-and-seek among the coffee trees and our dog explores every inch of our farm. I want to make sure we are using products and employing farming techniques that keep my family and coffee safe and keep our trees healthy. I am always seeking out new ways to do this, including reading articles published by Kona coffee farmers nearly 100 years ago. Despite all of the technologies now available to farmers, it seems that sometimes, the “old fashioned way” is actually the best way. We favor environmentally-friendly products and we are reminded each day, as we look out over the farm to the beautiful Pacific ocean, that what we put in our soil will eventually wash to the sea. It’s a stewardship responsibility that we take seriously.

We also chose our coffee packaging carefully – our coffee bags and the one-way ventilation disks (which keep your coffee fresh) are 100% compostable (please just remove the stickers and reuse those on a water bottle or somewhere fun). It costs us a bit more in our overhead to purchase these specialty bags, but again, where we invest our money and how we get this coffee to our fans is important to us. We hope you share that passion. 

On the farm, we reuse and compost what we can. From our seasonal pruning waste to fallen leaves to coffee grounds, we try to put back resources into the soil. Our home also composts kitchen waste and other greens from the farm, all with the end goal of creating less waste and using more of what we naturally produce to sustain the farm. 

We feel good about how we are growing this coffee – we hope you feel good drinking it!