Posted July 19, 2010

-Internet search for Kona coffee. Regular Customer I want to send 1 lb of roasted kona coffee and 1 lb of the
macademia nuts to my parents the week of July 1st. I can't stand the coffee my folks purchase/drink and I want
my folks to try the macademia nuts (which are fabulous!!!!)

-We met you at your brothers' birthday party, and were lucky enough to take home your incredible party favor
samples. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and were blown away by the coffee the next morning!

-regular customer

-love the products!

-Internet

-Thanks for the peaberry notification - please keep me on the list! I need an extra pound of roasted regular
beans this month, as a gift for a friend. Have a great month!

-Your coffee is the greatest. I've tried many other Konas and none hold a candle to you.I have ordered from you
a few times before. Originally I found you via Google.

-Wedding Present-I ordered a lot of coffee from you in college

-Saw a very nice blog about you on a coffee lover's web site. My wife and I are fans of ''micro roasts''
and love Kona, so we are really looking forward to trying your coffee (especially the peaberry)! You
have a very interesting Web site with lots of nice pictures, and sounds wonderful living and working in Hawaii!

-From this thread on a technology website: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t2081805

-Just surfed in while browsing.

-Bought some of your coffee previously via Steve Leighton at Has Bean here in the UK

-Internet search for Kona coffee

-From friends

-coffeegeek.com

-Thanks for the wonderful coffee. Best Regards

-I have purchased coffee before from you guys.

-Cooking with Paula Deen magazine May 2007 issue

-Someone on CoffeeGeek recommended you. I compared you to the other place recommended on the same blog -
XXXX XXXXX - and was extremely unimpressed by the XXXX XXXXX website/sale strategy. Your family run farm
makes coffee look like an art and I can tell from your website that a lot of care is put into preparing it.
That's what my dad will appreciate so it was an easy choice. Keep up the great work!

-Love your coffee. Pennsylvania is now like Hawaii weather, for the moment.

-We OK and hoping you're in good health too.

-online, love your website design!

-A friend of ours from Wisconsin that has been your customer for awhile. They offered us a cup of coffee
and that was all it took.

-google search

-ran out and didn't plan ahead.

-From a technical website that talks about computer hardware. There was a thread about what do you use to
boost you up when you need it. Your coffee was mentioned.

-google

-Googled

-We are a repeat customer. Coffee is great, thanks. best kona coffee and found
http://coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/questions/383299

-We are within 2 weeks of finishing our 5 lb bag - it is pure heaven!

-We are a repeat customer. Coffee is great, thanks.

-I know Cea is away, but could you please rush this as I'm down to a 4 day supply. Thanks

-Existing happy customer referred by other happy customer

-Glocktalk.com

-Mahalo!!! Roasting your beans is Great

Posted May 27, 2010

-through a google search and I had seen a special on tv about kona coffee

-Hi Cea! Long time I haven''t ordered - so sorry! I have missed reading all about your life -
you have so many wonderful pictures posted and I love to see them all! Glad to hear you and Bob are
vacationing soon. Thank you for your love and care for the fruit of the earth and thereby your love
for me too! I can hardly wait for my next smooth cup of coffee! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Have a wonderful time with your family.

-Blogs googled Best Kona coffee!

-Internet browsing -USENET-Another lovely year. I hope you all are getting along fine.

-online search for best tasting kona coffees

-Hi Cea, Hi Bob. we love your kona beans. Have a nice vacation!

-previous order

-Internet shopping

-old customer  

-Surfin the net

-I'm ordering these above my automatic order, for gifts. :)   Everyone here loves your coffee, so it's the perfect 
gift!

-random internet search, one of my friends just came home from maui, and I suppose its that time of 
the year where I yearn for island coffee  :-)   


-Hope you had a good trip!

-CoffeeGeek.com

-Hope you enjoyed you trip to MD (born and raised there  :-) 

-Kona Resident

-Friend

-Thank you for the shipment. You & your Kona are the Best !!!!

-Google search

-BadgerBlade Forums...wet shaving forum with an active coffee sub forum


-Cea is on RFC.....a cooking group I belong to.

-Happy returning customer, thanks!!  

-googled green kona coffee,

-Previous Customer

-Internet search for Kona coffee.

Posted April 23, 2010

-web search

-A coffee review forum.

-Hope you folks are well!

-I assume we will receive this order within 2 weeks - we leave for our northern home then. We have ordered 
from you before and like your green coffee beans very much (ed. note- sent the next day)

-Happy returning customer!  Mahalo from mid-Missouri!

-Was really impressed with your efforts and like to support small companies.  

-Coffeegeek forums

-Repeat customer! Mahalo!

-Best Kona EVER!! Thank you so much for taking the time and care to make great beans. I can actually taste 
the difference.

-I found out about your coffee on a forum. If memory serves it was coffeegeek.com

-Old customer.  (First time via browsing on web and found you)

-google search for Island Kona Beans.  I remember Kona I had on the Island was nothing like what I can get 
on the mainland.  If yours is what I hope it is, then you will have many orders from me and my friends.

-Thank you for the wonderful coffee!!

-Thanks for the wonderful coffee. Please use USPS Priority Mail for the shipment.    Best Regards,

-Hi Cea we are looking forward to Kona Coffee again it has been awhile we have ordered from you in the past 
and yes  asap...Thanks very much so happy to see all the beautiful pictures and glad you are still selling 
this wonderful Kona Coffee hope to hear from you again....  

-We found you on the internet after returning from Hawaii over 6 yrs ago and we fell in love with Kona Coffee 
ever since and ordering and replying has never been any problem, Cea always keeps us informed and we 
are happy with Smith Farms, Thanks!

-Google search

-Thank you. Have a great vacation!  Please ship usps. What ever cost less?  

-Thank you!!!!

-Google search lead to a user posting on coffeegeek.com

 -Mahalo, Cea!

-alt.coffee

-I got it today and I'm so happy!  I just can't live without my Smithfarms Kona coffee anymore!  I keep referring
people to you, so hope business is well.  Hope you and the family are well too!

-From my dentist.

-through a google search and I had seen a special on tv about kona coffee

-Long time I haven''t ordered - so sorry! I have missed reading all about your life - you have so 
many wonderful pictures posted and I love to see them all! Glad to hear you and Bob are vacationing soon.
Thank you for your love and care for the fruit of the earth and thereby your love for me too! I can hardly 
wait for my next smooth cup of coffee! Thank you thank you thank you!!! Have a wonderful time with your 
family.

-Thank you both for the great coffee!!

-I'm an old customer - last order Oct. 2009!

-I like your web site!    How they found you: For 19 years I have been ordering Kona from the same 
plantation. A friend of mine was in Hawia for a AA confrence and turned me on to your coffee. And your farm. 
Look forward to the Peaberry Alert!!! Count me in.  I come from a family of small farm owners.  Have 
an awesome day.

-returning customer

-I lost you once and it took me 2 hours to locate your website again!!  I liked the family and pet scenes very much.  
Thank you.  

-An Audubon publication

-friends here in St. Louis area.  We're now 1st time returning customers!

-Thanks Cea Return customer



-Re-order

-We honeymooned in Kailua-Kona for all of February 2010.  I found you on the internet using keywords 
''kona coffee ship to Canada''

-Surfing the web

-Google!

 -lawyer friends

-web search


-the best coffee I have ever drank. Keep up the good work.


-I received the box today. We can enjoy your delicious coffee and macadamia now.

-A coffee review forum.

Posted February 20, 2010

-A friend of mine gave me a pound of your coffee for Christmas. I didn't know coffee could taste like this!
Yum Yum!! Can't wait for it to get here! Thank You!

-Returning customer

-WEB SEARCH

-Long time customer.

-Found you on the internet

-alt.binaries.food

-coffeegeek.com

-My cat told me about your site. :)

-I googled best Kona coffee online-We got the coffee and my hubby and I would like to compliment you two-
it is fabulous! There's nothing on earth like pure Kona coffee :o) We'll probably end up doing the automatic
order thing-but would like to see how long it takes for us to go through this one!

-Google...wanted an American Shade Grown product......

-AudioCircle

-We now have about 12 inches of snow and they are predicting 8-10 more tomorrow. Want to trade? :)

-I've ordered from you before love your coffee.

-Internet -- and return customer!

-My second order.

-Good friends

-Previous order...liked it so much, decided to treat myself to some more.

-Repeat order

-Ordered before

Just got coffee,smells delicious even through packaging, post man had to push out of door!Lovely,fantastic.....
Just had two cups.Thanks for great coffee,will be wanting some more so will place another order shortly.

From January 1st, 2010

-Net search. Glad I found you!

-friend,

-Would have liked it shipped for Christmas but since I am ordering AFTER the New Year. Hopefully you will
be quicker then I was! ordered last year

-CoffeGeek.com!

-Returning customer

-Genetics!

-WEB SEARCH

- http://coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/questions/383299

-I have been drinking **** B*** coffee for some time now, and I must say that yours is BETTER!!
I made lattes for guests on New Years day and they drank half of my stash! Keep up the great work.
Thanks Cea!

-Mark Prince Coffeegeek podcast

-hi we need real coffee.

-Internet reviews

-I have ordered for years

-I am drinking a cup as I place this order! Thank you! Thank you!

- from December 2009:)

-longtime customer, crazy guy that drove up that road -)

-Ordered before... :) Love to have it so I can roast coffee as a gift to friends and family for Christmas

-Cigar Asylum Coffee Forum

-Recommendation from CoffeeGeek.com

-Just read a recommendation on a website that you had the best!

-Google search led to CoffeeGeek.com and description of your coffee thereon

-I googled Kona coffee and found a post on the Coffee Geek forums about Smithfarms.

-usenet, web, prior customer, devoted fan -).

-Coffee Geek off a Google Search for Best Kona Coffee.

-return customer

-long time customer

-Merry Christmas from Texas!

-friend in common

-cigarasylum.com/repeat cust.

-repeat customer

-My brother requests your coffee for a Christmas gift.

-Word of mouth

-CoffeeGeek forums

-on internet...been ordering off and on for past 5 years or so...

-online research

-Internet surfing

-Aloha from the Pennsylvania mountains. Have a great holiday

-a very, very, very long time ago!!!!

-coffeed.com

-You're infamous! :)

-You were linked on a blog. Mostly Cajun I''ve been to your site before and always wanted to order but
never did til now

-A friend that used to live on Kona.

-Thanks and have a happy Holiday.

-abf

-on the Web, in response to a question asked about what is the best Kona.

-From staff at Mauna Lani Hotel.

www.coffeegeek.com

-Google seach Your website is very entertaining. I enjoy the very personal quality.

-Happy Holidays!

-Long time ago at San Diego Home Roaster meeting.

-Previous customer...Hi Cea, from the wintry cold Vermont that you remember. My best wishes for the
happiest of New Years to you! I might be an infrequent customer, but nonetheless, loyal! :-)

-zBest way... word of mouth

-oh,,, i know you

-Green coffee buying club

-We were talking about peaberry the other day and I immediately thought of you guys! and, needed to place
an order. Hope you are well.

-was looking up coffee, (just got a new coffee maker), read about you on the internet from a happy client,
then saw your website

-Net search. Glad I found you!

Earlier Comments

Dennis: Well, I have to say, i was doubtful. I have been buying Kona from small growers like you for a very long
time. I regularly order from places like*****, and more. I love the coffee and have hardly ever been disappointed. When I ordered your coffee I noticed that you don't do a dark roast and I almost cancelled my order. The medium roasts I have had in
the past are usually watery and tasteless. I've never liked them.

Until I tasted yours this morning. Its by far, the best Kona I ever tasted. I'm so used to the oily dark roasted
bean that I was really skeptical. But when I tasted the coffee, I have to say, the flavor was full, sweet and
delicious. Its very full bodied, many layered and as is typical of Kona, not acid at all. This coffee was much
more nuanced. Good word. Many levels of flavor. Matter of fact, I had my last cup 4 hours ago and I don't want
to eat anything because the taste is still in my mouth. Sometimes I go to a meeting and my client offers me
coffee and I refuse because I prefer the taste of my Kona to linger.

I think one of the reasons all of the other medium roasts have been watery and tasteless is because the
growers do not roast themselves. They send it out. You guys can obviously have a lot more control.

Caroline: Just wanted to say how much I enjoy my coffee, still share a little with my daughter, but hog
most of it myself!!! (ed. note. orders 5 pounds every other month)

Bob: We are in the dead of winter and enjoying the last few pots of your perfect coffee.  We need
more! Please send TWO five pound bags of your 100% roasted Kona coffee.  Same card particulars as before.

...A little side story.  My brother and I have been drinking Kona and Kona blend coffees for about 10 years,
buying a bag at just anyplace.   Then we found we could buy it over the internet,  but there must be a
hundred different sites.  Not remembering who we bought the last pound from, we bought Kona from a
bunch of different sites.  So, separately my brother and I set out on a quest to find the best Kona! 
Last Christmas we gave each other, what we thought was the best Kona coffee, boy were we surprised as
we exchanged Your Kona !!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to grow, pick and handle such a fine product.
Great web-site too!.

.....I am down to enough beans for 1 more 4 cup pot. After that is gone, I go into withdrawal and depression.
Thanks, R.K.

....I am drinking it as I am writing this to you. It tastes sooo gooood!! Thank you so much. I feel much
happier now M.H.

....Just a note about your coffee;  Your coffee is absolutely the best! J.C. is a very good friend of mine
and she introduced me to your wonderful coffee. I love the picture display of your kitties... I have five.
Many thanks  AS

....Thanks for the great service. I got the 5# of green beans on Monday. They're beautiful! ....C.K.

....The other order is for my sister, Julie. You sent some at christmas time, and she told me she is rationing
it so she doesn't run out. She is an addict already. Your coffee is unbelievable. S.S.

Hello, I would like to place another order for 2 pounds of delicious kona coffee in the international 
envelope. Do you still have my credit card info? or the address?............................Okay I hope you can
send it out soon! Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day  S.H.

....this time send a 10# bag of kona...please..or two 5# its been a wierd winter....50's most of jan..
although a nor-easter just blew in off lake huron and it went from 52 today to 22 in the last half hour..
.oh the changes... K.B.

....Thanks SO much for sending the packages at Christmas. My Mom was SO surprised to get mail
from Hawaii - and she LOVES the Kona coffee! We also gave a pound of ours to Bob's Mom and
she thought it was great too!! Two more converts, I guess! And the macadamias were awesome -
we got another bag of macadamias from someone for Christmas, and they were nothing like yours!
Yours are the cadillac of macadamia nuts for sure!! l.  b.

....Sipping my Kona coffee and eating an English muffin covered with Lehua honey- what a delight!
Thank you so much! C.P.

....My boyfriend loves your coffee. That's why i wanted to send it to C. for V-day. K.M.

.... Happy new year! c.h.m

Bob's tillandsias on a native fern tree with a streptophylla in the smack dab middle of
the photo lying in some spanish moss, or t. usinoides.

 

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