Kona Coffee Cherries
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Kona Coffee Cherries
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Ripe Kona coffee cherries still on the vine.
Kona coffee cherries are grown only on the mountain slopes in the Kona District of the Big Island of Hawaii. This area of Hawaii is essentially the perfect environment for coffee beans. The combination of climate and volcano has formed the perfect superior nutrient rich soil. The morning sun is plentiful while the trade winds keep it from getting to hot. In the afternoon, clouds move in bringing rain. This slows the growing process ensuring the cherries ripen on the vine the correct length of time and gives the trees the water they need while the porous volcanic rock and angle of the Kona slopes drain all the excess rain away keeping the ground from becoming overly wet.
Every cherry is handpicked to ensure ripeness and graded by type and quality of bean. Type I beans consists of two beans per cherry, flat on one side, oval on the other. Type II beans consist of one round bean per cherry, otherwise known as peaberry. There are many grades within each type.
The beans then have to be dried and roasted to become one of the most expensive and desirable coffees in the world.
Copyright 2017 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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October 15th, 2017
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