When we first started, our families helped with the farms. Here is Papa Francis and his mo`opuna(grandchildren) taking a lunch break.  Picking coffee is not an easy chore.  Today, sixteen years later, they continue to kokua.

     Drying our coffee under the Hawaiian Sun

Papa is hand-picking one cherry at a time  The trained eye and skilled hands are necessary for good quality control.

  Keoua is pulping the cherries after the day's 

  harvest