July 2018 Slow Food Nations Festival

Slow Food Nations Festival Aloha KCFA Members: For the second year in a row, KCFA will be an Exhibitor in mid-July at the Slow Food Nations festival in Denver, CO.  Take a look at the website: https://slowfoodnations.org/festival-2018/.  See KCFA listed as a participant in the Taste Marketplace section. Remember that Slow Food USA has granted Pure…

KCFA Wants to Help Evacuees

 We need a “count” of what donations of pastries/cookies and pounds of ground 100% Kona coffee that we can expect to receive from you this Wednesday for our “Pahoa Help Event” to be held on Friday. (all info below).   Would you please email us here… just click>>>  info@konaCoffeeFarmers.org to confirm your intended donation? We want to meet our goals…

2018 Annual General Membership Meeting- Sunday!

 This Sunday! Must be a current KCFA Member to vote!           Kona Coffee Farmers Association Annual General Membership Meeting            Sunday, January 28, 2018  11:30 am  The Kona Coffee Farmers Association’s 2018 Annual General Membership Meeting (AGM) will be this Sunday, January 28 at the Kahalu’u Beach…

Hawaii Tropical Tree – Listening Session Announcements

Listening Session The Risk Management Agency (RMA) is evaluating comprehensively the Hawaii Tropical Tree Pilot Crop Insurance Program. This evaluation is to determine whether the pilot crop insurance program for banana, coffee and papaya trees should be converted to permanent program, modified and continued as pilot, or terminated. We will present the results of our…

Dr. Sarada Krishnan – Denver Botanic Gardens

Dr. Sarada Krishnan of the Denver Botanic Gardens will be the featured speaker at the annual general membership meeting of the Friends of Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden to be held in the Garden on Saturday, September 23. The public is invited to attend this free presentation which will be held beneath a tent…

March 7 Hearing-West Hawaii Civic Center 9 am-Your Help Needed

REMINDER–EXTENSION OF CURRENT HDOA COFFEE GRADE STANDARDS: On March 7, 2017, at 9:00 am at the West Hawaii Civic Center, the Hawaii Department of Agriculture will hold a public hearing on its proposal to extend the “sunset date” for the current grade standards. If the HDOA’s proposed amendments are not adopted, the current standards will…

Harvest Picnic and You are invited – August 14

Harvest Picnic!                Aloha all KCFA members and  families.  You are all invited to attend the annual KCFA Harvest Picnic.  It will be held Sunday, August 14th, from noon to 3:00 at the Church Lot Picnic area, across from the beautiful Honaunau Bay/Two Step beach, next to Puuhonua O Honaunau…