Established in 8/8/88 and online since 1/3/99 🙂
Celebrating 37 years of Being SMITHFARMS
and more than 26 years of Being online.
We have yummy coffee for you.
silly old Whitey hen- she caught herself in the mongoose trap for the 4th! time this week!
Saturday night -October sunset
With all the recent Volcano activity, my cousin asked to see the film my Dad took in 1955. It was film remember, and not sharp but it’s real.
1955 Lava Flow and we were there:)-70 years ago
My dad Frank Burns (CES Burns Jr.) took most of this video. He was manager and had to prove to the insurance company that the fire destroyed the cane acreage—–before the approaching lava. The sugar plantation had insurance for fire- not lava- and lots of acreage was burned. All we Burns kids are in the video, mom and dad, even our grandmother Puna Walker and our parents good friends David and Beppy Young.
long version (2 Hours+) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9pdJyGhuo
short version (2 minutes) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERZ3BInV4CY
view from our Living Room on a beautiful morning
with the tops of our coffee trees below us and the Pacific stretching out beyond
continuing with the tastiest caffeine delivery system on the planet! 
Aloha…..from south Kona on Hawaii island …2,800 miles off the west coast of America & 1,869 feet up the slopes of Mauna Loa, to our front door handle.
SMITHFARMS, a small, independent 5 acre farm, welcomes you to try our 100% Kona coffee. Our Coffea arabica, var. typica trees are happy and healthy and many are over 130+ years old! Still vigorous and beautiful. Our trees are the heirloom real Kona Coffee, absolutely.
We know that our SMITHFARMS 100% Kona Coffee
is as good as Kona coffee can be!
Bob has enhanced our practically perfect natural conditions through individualized attention to each tree. He is able to give our trees this specialized care because of our 5-acre size. Honestly– he really loves all of his trees.
Think it shows up in the cup.
We are sustainable farmers who do not use any insecticides. We are meeting our needs while considering the needs of future generations that will farm this same land.
Our cat sisters continue to delight. Ginger on the left and Juneau on the right.
They are having a pre-bedtime nap and will be 9 years old next year on Valentine’s Day:)
The humans—Bob and I, Cea, live on the farm in our house and are the growers, pickers, and packers, selling our entire crop directly to people who enjoy our unique products. We hand farm our land, using no machinery, continuing the ancient tradition of hand farming by Hawaiians who grew taro, bananas, sweet potatoes and sugarcane in our same fields
it takes about 300 ripe coffee cherries (one flower yields one bean) to total a pound of fresh coffee?
and it takes about 7 pounds of fresh coffee cherries (2100 coffee cherries!) to get 1 roasted pound of coffee!
Each coffee cherry is picked one by one, by hand.
Smithfarms Pure Kona Coffee is…
PURE Natural! Unadulterated Goodness!
Truly awesome Taste! & Aroma!
100% Kona Coffee
sweet, creamy, chocolaty, sparkly & all natural!
and …it can be yours!
our downstairs special climate controlled storage room filling up
Our Smithfarms farm is found high up Mauna La’s steep slopes up to our ~1900 foot elevation. We are above historic Kealakekua Bay and overlook the ancient Place Of Refuge in the district of South Kona on Hawaii island, the largest, and most southern of the 8 main Hawaiian islands. Captain Cook first landed in 1779 at Kealakekua Bay, which we overlook.
Unusual view of the ocean as I was driving down. Sheets of rain coming on to land from the Pacific ocean.
SMITHFARMS is a 5 acre Kona coffee farm whose farmers are dedicated to the conscientious care of the earth and its bounty.
We have natural shade grown 100% Kona coffee and we use no chemical insecticides.
Our SMITHFARMS land has been hand farmed without any machinery ever. We have pre-contact stone walls, hand built by Hawaiians. No bulldozer has ever crushed our earth. The roots of our coffee plants can go anywhere they want in our light volcanic soil. Makes them happy coffee trees!
The picking equipment: a basket, pair of gloves, (lots of…) time in the fresh air …..
and the great result… Smithfarms coffee fruit in a basket!
What makes our Kona Coffee farm so special?
It is really just us, with Bob doing the hard farm work daily and both of us working along side our pickers every picking day. I manage this web site and do other smithfarms-office type stuff. We have a great and kind helper Tim Martens, who weed whacks and helps our entire farm. We are the packers and the pruners and roasters of our Smithfarms 100% Kona Coffee. Mortals trying to do the right thing.
We can supply you with the finest 100% Kona coffee there is and we are confident about that.
Smithfarms is farmed by sustainable farmers (definition: meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by doing the same thing on our land).
Bob is conscientious about the care of the land and would never jeopardize it.
We are a fairly traded coffee (definition: non-exploitive toward the farm, farmer or the workers).
We live in America, too.
Smithfarms Pure Kona Coffee
indeed BEAUTIFUL & NATURAL- and we pick only the red ones
Never had our coffee Before? aaah “poor ting” 🙂 as we say in Hawaii…
WE CAN Help!
We were told that drinking our coffee is like “having dessert at breakfast”
Imagine tasting this goodness yourself: (yum… slurp… swirl) SMITHFARMS 100% Kona coffee beans — Natural & Gourmet with “an AROMA which is full, sweet and fruity – causing your olfactory senses to jump with delight“
“What a wonderful l i n g e r i n g taste each sip will give you.”
A cup of naturally sweet Kona coffee that will never be forgotten, Creamy smooth, with that Just-before-chocolate taste!
Mild mild in acid and just awesome awesome in flavor.
A “clean and bright 100% Kona coffee flavor which is straight forward, and a full & smooth with a sweet body and such a lingering finish.”
said a renowned coffee reviewer after tasting our coffee.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We offer an extremely SECURE ORDER FORM and website. We use RapidSSL by GeoTrust to protect you– always. We never have access to your entire credit card information ourselves, (various sections of the numbers are stored on various servers to protect you.
Smithfarms Coffee Cherry fresh picked
Isn’t that beautiful? The end of a picking day.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
We selectively hand pick 
each coffee bean so that only the ripest, reddest fruit is chosen.
We then carefully wet-process our coffee in lots of fresh volcanic aquifer water and then every Smithfarms Kona coffee bean is put out in our warm Hawaiian sun to bask/sun bathe with de-light while our tropical breezes gently dry them to perfection.
No chemicals are involved.
which results in….
100% Kona Coffee PURE which is Freshly Roasted, extraordinarily Aromatic, Sweet & Delicate & Naturally Gourmet!
from wordsmith.com:
A THOUGHT I LOVE and don’t want to change this
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
What is Happening now? 4th round of picking just finished and we have more yet on the trees. Very happy! Weed whacking is endless:) We have plenty of coffee to offer you!
Bob loading up his valuable “put-put” with 4 bags of 50# of fertilizer
FYI-Smithfarms is “open” from Sundays through Thursdays and we often take off from putting orders together on Fridays and Saturdays. Our rural Honaunau Post Office is closed from noon on Fridays until 8 am on Mondays. Just in case you were wondering:)
Saturday night sunset
aloha from us in south Kona