Organic Shade grown Coffee along our River and natural Orchard!

This beginning was a surprise to us. After owning the property for a few weeks and deciding on designs, layouts, possible areas for crops, new walkways for better access, and more airflow for existing plants and to reduce the mosquito population, we discovered along the river "WILD COFFEE", old beautiful trees and hundreds of keikis.

At this point we knew of one crop for sure! Since we are working on getting our organic certification and also integrating the knowledge of Permaculture, Biodynamic gardening and local wisdom, it could not have been better. We invited a friend from the Maui Coffee Growers Association to help us identify and give us his well proven recommendations. So we started clearing for more light and to give space to the plants, potted the smaller Coffee plants and transplanted to bigger fields with more light to compare the yield production and taste. All our Coffee plants are self sustained, we gave them a healthy natural start with compost, soil and a little mineral mix. The 65 Plants are doing well, by next year we can expect a small crop from the transplants. In 2007 we will be harvesting around September through December our Tipica River Coffee Trees. The soil conditons are:
In Haiku, Upcountry Maui, we have similar weather conditions as Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii with volcanic soil and a subtropical climate.
Here in Haiku, we have more nutrients on virgin land, natural growing Coffee with some up to 20 years old, natural river and ground water self watering and lots of good sunshine.

We are going to harvest for the first time, beginning September 2007. Any help is appreciated!!