Part 1, Holualoa Village Coffee and Art Stroll
Saturday was the very popular Holualoa Stroll. The artist town of Holualoa, about 4 miles
North of us on Mamalahoa Hwy was filled with coffee farm owners and their
products. Each gallery featured a coffee
farm. You could get wired on this stroll
because everyone offered a taste of their coffee, and of course offered it for
sale.
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| At the KCFA booth |
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| Bruce of Rancho Aloha |
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| Page of Princess Radha coffee |
David and I helped in the Kona Coffee Farmers Assoc. (KFCA)
booth with Mary Lou Moss of Cuppa Kona coffee, Membership Chair and all around KCFA booster. She herself made the coffee bag totes, coffee cup bird feeders,
ordered the coffee themed jewelry, the
koa coffee scoopers, coffee mouse pads, coffee picking aprons called “Roo’s”,
and the various coffee T-shirts and hats.
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| Rocky and also June, 2012 |
We also sold the famous coffee growers', “almost naked” calendar, the male
edition. Last year there were photos of
female coffee growers. Surprisingly, we
already knew several of the handsome men.
One was Rocky in the Rocky Horror Picture Show we saw on Halloween at
the Aloha Theater. Another male model is the President
of KCFA. We bought the coffee label
shirts we are wearing throughout most of the festival. We even bought coffee label placemats.
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| Ubiquitous tasting cup |
Featured in the booth was the KCFA coffee. Several growers donated their green coffee
and MaryLou blended it, roasted it herself and packaged it for sale with the KCFA label . Of course everyone was offered a taste. I thought the KCFA blend was excellent. It sells for $25.00 per pound.
They must have used thousands of these 2
ounce paper coffee tasting cups throughout the festival. Mountain Thunder was a big sponsor of the events. It is one of the larger processors. You could taste 100% Kona coffee in one fo these cups at every
event, and buy it as well.
I say “we”
because we are members of KCFA and attend their monthly meetings and coffee
talks. We are also members of the rival
Kona Coffee Council. Both promote 100%
Kona coffee, but KCC is supposedly made up of some of the blenders of the evil 10%
Kona coffee that is half the price. We
are trying to stay out of the politics of these two organizations. We enjoy mingling with the growers, many of whom are old hippies like ourselves.
The coffee booth photos posted are members we know of the KCFA . Page also won the coffee baking competition with his Grandmother's coffee sugar cookie recipe. This event had the biggest prizes - money!
The coffee booth photos posted are members we know of the KCFA . Page also won the coffee baking competition with his Grandmother's coffee sugar cookie recipe. This event had the biggest prizes - money!
Saturday night crowned Miss Kona Coffee and Miss Aloha Hawaii. We saw these beautiful and talented young ladies often throughout the festival.
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| Contestants |
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