Coffee Plantation

On Friday of our vacation we got to visit Kauai Coffee Plantation.  Kauai Coffee Company was founded on the island in early 19th century and have been producing coffee there ever since.  They grow coffee on some 3000+ acres on the western side of Kauai and allow guests to take an 1/8 mile tour through some of the plants.  There are signs along the way describing the process of coffee production from planting and growing to roasting and selling.  They also had many different flavored coffees out for sampling.  I tried some of their regular coffee and banana macadamia nut.  I also bought an iced coffee cup there and was given a free fill-up.

A beautiful close up of unripe coffee beans.

Coffee plants as far as the eye can see.

They use machines like this to harvest their crop.

Sign 7 here says "Sorting things out".  These structures are used to
sort through their different grades of coffee beans.  They have five
classes and sell coffee for each one.

Sampling some of the coffee.