Kona Old Style Coffee at Kuaiwi Farm

This was a really great experience. We got to spend hours walking around learning about not only coffee but also all the different fruit they were growing. Our host was very nice, very knowledgeable, very thorough, and also very patient with the two little boys also on the tour. We were treated to coffee, chocolate, and jams/​jellies on a beautiful lanai at the end. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone looking for a very personal tour of a family farm.

So much more than just a coffee farm tour!
I highly recommend a visit to this farm to see not only how coffee is grown and processed but to also view and taste some of the best produce on Hawaii. Una was incredibly generous with her time and with letting us sample the bounty of her farm.
From Mac nuts to oranges to Surynam cherries, cacao nibs, and more– we sampled fruit straight off the trees as well as her homemade jams, fruit leather, and chocolate.
The care that Una and Leon put into this organic farm is evident when you taste their harvest. We can’t wait to make another cup of coffee from their delicious hand picked beans at home!

Awesome hospitality, you go down the little half grown over, bumpy but really fun it felt like an adventure, Una and Leon we’re welcoming and extremely knowledgeable. Got our two young kids involved so much let them crack macadamia nuts and pick certain fruits on their property. Fed their neighbors cows, they cut down bananas from their plant and got to go on their lanai and taste the delicious coffee. We did try the coco nibs from the chocolate pod that she whacked open and it looked white encased in a membrane that looked weird but we tried it and it was delicious! This tour is a must do! Took about two hours total start to finish with snacks and their delicious certified organic coffee. Thank you Una and Leon!

We had a wonderful morning – four of us adults took the chocolate class, and then the rest of our group (including toddlers) came for the farm tour. It was a really great morning, and a beautiful way to explore the area, learn about food, and taste delicious, fresh, organic food! Una and Leon were gracious hosts, and I am so glad we did this!

This farm tour was everything we were hoping for and more! Coffee, chocolate and a vast array of fruits. Una was very welcoming and informative. Since they have been operating the farm for several decades, she’s full of helpful and unique farming and local island info.
We have never seen so many different types of plants and vegetation. We were able to try several fruits we’d never heard of. The picnic on the lanai at the end of the tour was wonderful. Their old style medium roast coffee, amazingly delicious. Their jams and chutneys, fantastic. 70% chocolate, heaven. I was infatuated with the avocado as big as my head though… smooth, creamy and incredible. Una even shared her avocado ice cream with us!
If you want an authentic Hawaiian farm experience, free from commercialization and pesticides, come visit Kuaiwi Farm! It’s the best $ 15 you’ll spend on your trip. Wear long pants/​sleeves and walking shoes.

Una is awesome! What a slice of heaven she has upon this hillside. We took our 3 kids and spent a couple of hours touring her farm last month. So totally worth it. We learned so much! I do suggest you heed the warning to wear long pants or at the very least a lot of DEET. Unfortunately, we packed none of that on our trip so we were eaten alive by skeeters! Still worth it! We tasted raw coffee berries from 100+ year old trees, saw her cacao-​making process, tasted macadamia nuts which were being processed, ate ginger flowers, fed her neighbor’s cow, helped her pick mountain apples, tasted so many new fruits (like a pinapple guava, and a japodacaba!). We learned that bananas are not trees, but a grass. We tasted her award-​winning coffee on the deck of her beautiful geodesic dome home, as well as her chocolate! Amazing! She was really cool, full of great stories and facts, and she was so sweet and patient with the littles in tow. We purchased a really cool t-​shirt her daughter made, as well as some of her coffee and homemade jams. Support this family-​owned business if you’re in town and want to learn about the agriculture in the Kona region.

Fantastic 1.5 hour guided tour by Una Greenaway (owner). Who not only knew all there was to know but was extremely inviting and hospitable. Very interesting tour where we sampled all sorts of fruits, cacao, and coffee picked fresh as we walked through her property. The your ends at her home where we were served finished products of the coffee, jellies, chocolate, and more. Well worth the time and fees. Great time!

This farm is simply amazing! We learned everything we needed to know about picking coffee and how it is made. We went to the actual tree, picked the coffee from the tree, got the beans from the skin and learned how to dry them. Them we learned about picking cocoa and macadamia nuts and a whole host of other fruits on the 5 acre farm. We even fed the cow! It was a real hands on tour. Uma was an amazing host. We tasted everything as we went along. She evens made us coffee. Soooo much better then the corporate coffee tours.

My family and I enjoyed the most incredible 2.5 hour organic working farm tour experience. Una showed us 100 year old coffee trees, several different produce nuts jams, even chocolate. We toured some of the equipment used to farm these crops. We learned so much. When the tour was over we were welcomed to some of the award winning Kona coffee, fruits, jams, and nuts truly a must do on your list when in the area great for all ages from 1 to 101.

I had this crazy idea that a farm tour would be a fantastic experience for my family (including 4 kids).
I was SO right!
Una is sweet knowledgeable and such a gracious hostess. We spent a couple of hours soaking up the beauty of her farm and sampling the many different things grown on her farm: coffee, mountain apples, lychees, apple bananas, oranges, avocados… The list goes on and on.
It was one of the highlights of our entire trip — and my children, who loved the fruit as much as the geckos spotted everywhere, came home and were over the moon when they found their favorite Hawaii treat at the grocery store: lychees («like on the farm,
Mom!»).
Do this tour for a unique and educational experience that will bring you to the heart of Hawaii’s farming culture!

Una Greenway leads a spirited and knowledgable tour of her five acre organic farm. My husband, son and I had a chance to see Una pick fruits and vegetables from the trees and vines, cut them open and serve them to everyone right on the spot. We tasted MANY amazing and exotic fruits and I had a chance to actually see how asparagus grows. We loved Una’s stories and what she and her husband have created on the farm. Truly an experience to have if you come to the Big Island. TIP: Wear jeans and long sleeves for the mosquitos that are around parts of the farm. Make sure to taste the award winning organic coffee and yummy farm grown goodies she has! Here are photos.

Kona Old Style Coffee at Kuaiwai Farm is an amazing organic experience.
My husband and I enjoyed a relaxing afternoon with Una and her husband Leon. We spent about 3 hours touring the farm, trying new fruits and fresh nuts, tasting homemade jams and drinking their award winning coffee. I loved walking through her farm and seeing all the variety of crops. Una and her husband were amazing hosts, my husband and I felt very welcomed in their home. After leaving the farm we were loaded up with jams and coffee. I make my coffee everyday and I get to enjoy a little piece of Kuaiwai farms.

I thought I was going on a coffee plantation tour, and it was so much more! My partner and I got our own private tour, and we learned about organic farming in a very real way. We munched on mulberries, oranges, and a Brazilian fruit that I can’t remember the name of right off the tree. We spent about two hours getting the tour, then another 45 minutes or so sitting on her porch, drinking the best coffee I’ve had in a while, and eating her from-​the-​tree-​to-​her-​kitchen jams and mac nut butter.
This was a delightful part of my trip, and one I wasn’t expecting. To me, fruits, nuts, and coffee are things I buy at the grocery store. This was tremendous gift, and Una was excellent at sharing her passion for sustainable farming with us.

Just had the most incredible 2.5 hr farm tour with 3 very knowledgable organic farm interns at the farm! It is so nice to see a real, working, organic farm that produces small quantities of high quality consumables. Everything is hand made with love, and since it is a smaller operation they will take the time to really show you everything from prick to process. Our tour was private, and we learned so much! Thank you all for spending the afternoon sharing your knowledge with us! We will be back!
P. s. If you are between this tour and a larger coffee tour, take it from a girl that did both. This is hands down the way to go! You will see the whole coffee production and distribution process, and so much more. On top of it, you get an up close and personal view, rather then watching big machines churn away from yards away. Also, look into the honey bee farm up the road. I def want to try that next time!

My family enjoyed this tour and chocolate class. It is nice to support local business. Una was super friendly and passionate about organic gardening. Her farm/​garden is lush and has lots growing. It was fun to taste fresh macadamia nuts, cacao, and other fruits as we walked through. My only word of caution… wear bug spray and pants!
At the end of the tour we got to taste her jams, chocolate dipped apple bananas, coffee, and mac nut butter while sitting on her patio. We also took part of the chocolate making class (one of the 2 days). It was fun for me, but not exactly what I was expecting for the cost. A little more hands on for everyone would have been nice. However, I can’t wait to make chocolates with candied citrus in them again!

On our recent trip to the Big Island, I wanted to go on a real coffee farm tour, not one that basically consisted of drinking samples of some Kona blend in a cheesy gift shop. Thanks to Google and Unilocal,I found Kuaiwi Farm.
While Una’s tours aren’t free, they are well worth what you pay given what you get to see and learn about coffee, the various other fruits and vegetables she grows, and organic farming in general. As others have noted, you end the farm sitting on her deck talking story and sampling her products. I tried the dark roast, which had just come back from the roaster that morning, and it was absolutely amazing. I normally use milk in my coffee but actually preferred this black, it was so smooth.
I’d love to go back and take a chocolate class some day! But for now, I’m just going to enjoy the coffee I bought from Una, and the memories of our tour.

We went on a cacao farm tour and chocolate class at Kuaiwi farm and it was incredible in every respect! From the gorgeous plants the owner Una grows all organically, cacao to coffee, the way she processes them all into delicious coffee, chocolate and jams, and the fun chocolate making class where we learned to make chocolate from the fresh pod all the way to the finished melting chocolate bar, it was non-​stop delight. Una is very gracious and an excellent teacher, and sending you home with a DVD of the chocolate making process means that you can focus on how tasty the chocolate is, not need to take notes, and make it again when you get home even if you live on the mainland! I’d highly recommend their tours to anyone who’s near Captain Cook & Kona!

I visited Kuaiwi farm because of a coworker’s recommendation. This turned out to be one of the highlights of my trip to Hawaii.
The walking tour of a working organic coffee farm started with a view of 100 year old coffee trees planted by the original owner. Una was a wealth of knowledge for all of the plants and processes on the farm. She was amazing with her generosity of showing how each part of the plants — from organic composting to harvesting fruits — fit in. She has a deep connection and love of the land.
I have a group of friends visiting and definitely plan to take them on the farm tour.

Last week I attended a chocolate workshop and went to Kuaiwi Farms for the morning portion of the program. It was enchanting. This is a true organic farm that is in balance with nature and is full of love and good enery. Just driving up the road to get there was a beautiful treat. I live here and I loved it. I think just going to the farm would be a great experience for anyone visiting our island. They have coffee, cacoa, tea, oranges, vegetables, lemon and limes and so much more. Una is gracious and so down to earth. I felt like I had known her all my life. She even had all of us in her kitchen to try some of her jams and coffee. What a great day I had.

If you drink coffee, this is a must visit! This is not your average coffee plantation, mass coffee production tour. It felt more like visiting an aunt or friend’s house .and they happened to be located on this lovely organic coffee farm. Una is warm, friendly and ready to share her passion for coffee with you. We also got to taste some fruits grown on the farm — tree tomato was delicious… Kona lime was a hoot — looks like an orange, but 100% lime all the way. There are sample tasting including coffee, mac nuts, fruit jams. and chocolate. you will want to take everything home, and if you have space… that is exactly what you should do.