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Smithfarms: Established in 1988 and on the Internet Since January 1999!
Our 11th year on the Internet and 22nd Year in business!
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Estate Grade Run 100% Kona
green & roasted
and
limited amounts of Peaberry are available!
email me if you'd like to be put on the Peaberry Alert List-we'll have more
The beginning of a crop with helper
Coffee flowers out the window and each flower will become a coffee bean in about 8 months!
what happy coffee trees grow
notice the shine on those leaves!
And how do we protect the small coffee from pigs? Bob carefully builds a barrier around the young coffee with old coffee sticks to discourage the ever-maurauding pigs.Their noses are sensitive enough for this method to work.
If you are looking for
Wonderful coffee with
EXCEPTIONAL TASTE
SMITHFARMS PURE KONA IS IT!
AWESOME AROMA, too wowee!
and we can roast it up for you!
from our own roaster - can you just smell the chocolate?
You know
That Each of our SMITHFARMS coffee beans actually contains rays of our warm tropical South Kona sun??
Our 100% Kona Coffee is more than great tasting!
It is also beautiful.
Our Smithfarms coffee branches with ripe red cherry and green beans.
The 4 stages of our Kona Coffee
photos copy righted by Kevin E Smith
Fresh Cherry Coffee off the tree (below)
parchment below (green coffee is inside the parchment outer shell)
green beans ready for roasting (below)
roasted yummy delicious beans (below)
This is the seal you will find on your roasted coffee bags! We pay 5 Cents each for these seals and the money goes to support the Kona Coffee Farmer Organization (KCFA). It is a group dedicated to just the Kona Coffee farmer. That is what we are Kona Coffee Farmers!
Farmers are not processors. We grow the stuff, processors do process it but ...they also buy large quantities of fresh cherry from the majority of coffee farmers who sell at the cherry level, and then ...those processors sell that coffee to blenders! The processors want to buy coffee at the lowest possible price and the farmers want to earn their living. CONFLICT!
Kona Blend: The blenders take their coffee bags put in 90% unknown & never identified (Truth in Labeling?) coffee beans and 10% Kona Coffee beans and sell that bag for an enormous profit on their 10% Kona. Kona Blend!
The Kona Coffee Farmers Association is a totally volunteer, non-profit, community-based organization of coffee farmers with the mission to promote and protect the economic interests of Kona coffee farmers who grow and sell 100% Kona coffee and to seek greater legal protection of the Kona coffee name.
The KCFA logo. (end of rant:)
more about our SMITHFARMS...
100% PURE KONA COFFEE
Sustainably Grown and Fairly Traded!
Sustainably grown* means we farm the land and meet our needs to grow yummy 100% Kona coffee without compromising the ability of future farmers to grow their 100% Kona coffee here on the same land. We are a Fairly Traded coffee. We pay every helper of our 100% Kona coffee a fair wage.
We live in America,too.
morning light on a lush growing coffee tree
HOW DO WE PROCESS OUR COFFEE?????
here @ SMITHFARMS
We are very proud of our happy and healthy Kona coffee trees! Our Kona coffee thrives in the natural clouds clouds shade clouds clouds of our rainforest farm, where we have generally sunny mornings and cloudy afternoons and then rain.
Grown and cared for by Bob.
We guarantee your satisfaction or money back.
"Just wanted to thank you for the great service, and to let you know I think the coffee is wonderful! I've never tried Kona coffee before and, frankly, I was expecting to be disappointed. The quality of your beans surpassed my expectations in every way, and certainly ranks among the best tasting coffee I've ever had. Really outstanding!!" P.D.
Happy plants make exquisite coffee and that's what we have!
Looking out at the coffee (left), a croton (center) and our mock orange tree (right) on a rainy March day in the rainforest. Water is dripping down our window screens:).
So would you like to know more about our Kona coffee?
here goes...
SMITHFARMS 100% Kona Coffee Pure
Coffea arabica var. typica
is yours via
Happy & Healthy & Vigorous trees
many of our trees are over 125 years old, too!
(Look at the bean pictures above on this page. Vigor to the max!)
All
Hand Picked and Sun
Dried
naturally
High Elevation Grown
our house, midway on our farm, is at the 1,869 foot elevation
slower growing and bigger beans
and therefore: better tasting coffee
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What is green coffee?
GREEN Coffee is coffee that has been picked, wet processed & sun-dried & milled & its very next step is for YOU, the roaster, to roast. It is unroasted coffee.
Makes your kitchen smell delicious too:)
"I need your kona greenbean again. This time faster for my coffee friends become more and more and my kona coffee usage is very large" HL from Taiwan
We sell our 100% Kona green in amounts from 1 pound on up.
The maximum we can sell by Law, in one order, is 10 pounds of green beans.
We offer roasted coffee grinding, too. You can order your whole roasted beans ground in our Bunn 3 grinder burr grinder. $1 per pound . Just check it off on your order form. It is an exceptional grinder and you may just want to throw away your whirly blade and have us do your grinding!
FYI: The Grades of Kona coffee as ruled by the State of Hawaii, Department of Agriculture are:
Kona Extra Fancy= is the largest bean size, 19/64ths of an inch, with the least allowed number of defects allowed --less than 10 defects per pound.
Kona Fancy = 18/64" and 16 or less defects per pound
Kona No. 1 =16/64" and 20 or less defects per pound
Kona Prime = Beans of any size, 15% defective beans by weight
There are two kinds of Kona coffee beans. Type I which is 2 beans per fruit and all of the above are considered Type I and ....PEABERRY: Type II which is just one round bean per fruit and occurs in only about 5% of the entire crop
Satisfaction is Guaranteed
If you are ever unhappy, we will give you your $ back.
back to our coffee...
We think we only have the best and that's what we want YOU to have.
Alani- RIP July 24, 2009- such a sweetheart
Smithfarms 100% PURE Kona Coffee
2009-2010
Green Coffee Prices
100% Kona Estate Grade Run* $14/pound plus S&H
100%
Kona Peaberry $15.50/pound plus S&H
The maximum we can sell by Law, in one order, is 10 pounds of green beans.
Roasted Coffee Prices
Roasted 100% Kona Estate Grade Run* $20/pound plus S&H
Roasted 100% Kona Estate Grade Run* $95/Bulk Bag (5#) plus S&H
Roasted
100% Kona Peaberry
$27.50/pound plus S&H
Roasted
100% Kona Peaberry $130/Bulk Bag(5#) plus S&H
We feel that all the grades of our coffee are equally delicious. We treat each bean with the same care!
*"ESTATE GRADE RUN" is our own SMITHFARMS definition for our "Extra Fancy", "Fancy" and "Number one" grade beans as they naturally occur in our Smithfarms coffee crop. We take out the Peaberry and remove the grades below "Number one".
This was suggested to us, by a roaster friend years ago (thank you Barry J.), because the size difference between the largest and the smallest in our Estate Grade Run is all of 3/64ths of an inch. He felt it would give it a slight multidimensional pure awesome Kona Coffee flavor and we've never looked back. He was right. YUM!
We are a high elevation, (1700 - 2000 feet above sea level!) slower growing coffee farm. With the natural shade given by our clouds, we tend to have a larger amount of bigger beans. Tastier too, say the experts.
But all our precious & gourmet 100% Kona coffee grows at its perfect pace, with sunny mornings and afternoon cloud cover during the wet summer growing months and our dry cool winter harvest season.
Pennsylvania absorbing sun at the back door.
(I wonder if her black spots get hotter than her white spots.?)
Smithfarms "Estate Grade Run" Coffee
OUR
ROASTED COFFEE IS:
WHAT?
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whole bean, freshly roasted, lusciously dark but not burnt
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roasted to perfection by Bob Smith who grows and bags it as well as doing the perfect roast!
He thinks our roaster makes it even tastier, if you can imagine!
Did I tell you Bob is the farmer of our beans with a BS degree in Tropical Agriculture, too?
About the only college educated Kona Coffee farmer that I know of in Kona!
Grinding your whole beans, in our professional grinder aka "Ruby", is only $1/pound
Ruby is our BunnG3 grinder and she is sitting under a wall hanging made by our best buddy, and next to one of our pound bags:)
HOW LONG in Transit?
You choose! Go here to decide SHIPPING!
PACKAGING?
One pound bags are: shiny green, heat sealed & foil lined with valve & gold clip
Five pound bags are: shiny silver, heat sealed & foil lined with valve & gold clip
PRICES and Shipping Rates
| Estate
Grade Roasted Coffee |
Price |
Postage
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| 5 Pounds | $95 | about $19.38-FedEx or $11.70 USPS |
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1 Pound
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$20 | $6.30 -USPS |
| Half pound | $10.50 |
$6.30-USPS
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We roast the day before we send it.
We are always happy, really, to send it the way YOU want it!
Click here Shipping Costs- for all the information possible!
Our Climate Controlled Coffee Storage Room with Fat Parchment Bags before the parchment is taken to the millers- resulting in green coffee!
If you want an International Shipment, we can do it!
AUSTRALIA YES! They have lifted their Duty Costs- Yippeee
NEW ZEALAND NO! (Their import-customs costs are nauseatingly astronomical.)
Just email me: kona@smithfarms.com and I'll give you a price quote.
For International orders: We can urge 2 pound packages of our roasted Smithfarms into ONE Global Priority Mail envelope--- $14.28 total postage anywhere in the world-- besides Canada & Mexico
To Canada & Mexico, it is only $12.38!
The Global Priority Mail envelope arrives within 6-10 days. (We can do the same with 3 pounds of our green beans.)
We do mail our green and roasted 100% Kona Coffee all over the world. Wonderful exotic places like Hong Kong, Poland, Canada, England, Taiwan, Japan, Tenerife, Denmark, .
To mail 3 pounds of green in a Global Priority Envelope to Canada is $12.38 total postage and $14.28 total postage to all other foreign places. The same amount can be mailed to the US Mainland for $6.30
You may be interested to know that Bob and I believe in the general concept of karma. We do try to do the right and proper thing. We want to know when you are not pleased, too. It will make us better!
press
the cup to zip there
Make it easy on yourself! Join this growing group of "Coffee happy addicts" that has our freshly roasted 100% Kona coffee sent to them...
AUTOMATICALLY!
Weekly or bi/tri-weekly orders go out on Mondays
Monthly orders, or bi-monthly or tri-monthly orders go out as close to mid-month as possible.
YOUR BOX WILL ARRIVE AUTOMATICALLY and you can change your order at any time.
We roast it the day before and send your box out the next morning.
Did you know? One pound of whole beans will make approximately 32 cups of
the world's best coffee!
How many cups of tasty, natural & gourmet & creamy 100% Pure Kona coffee do you want to drink in a week? hmmmm...let me see, how many ways can I spoil myself and my sweetie, hmmmmm...
Our beautiful blue Pacific Ocean.
The view driving from Naalehu towards Hilo- with the ever going volcano at the mid to upper right of this photo although I don't think you can see it. Naalehu is considered the southernmost "town" in the United States.
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