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VIDEO: Kona coffee picking contest
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by Big Island Video News
on Nov 11, 2008 at 8:27 pm

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STORY SUMMARY

November 11, 2008 – Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Coffee pickers gathered at the Ueshima Coffee Farm (UCC Hawaii) to compete in the traditional Kona Coffee Picking Contest on the Big Island of Hawaii. The event is part of the annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival which brings the world of Kona coffee enthusiasts and farmers together in the […]

November 11, 2008 – Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Coffee pickers gathered at the Ueshima Coffee Farm (UCC Hawaii) to compete in the traditional Kona Coffee Picking Contest on the Big Island of Hawaii.

The event is part of the annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival which brings the world of Kona coffee enthusiasts and farmers together in the month of November, just as the trees are growing red with ripe coffee cherries.

Pickers competed in a number of different age and skill categories to see who could harvest the most coffee cherries, as well as the ripest and the cleanest, off the trees.

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Chairman of the festival, Norman Sakata, took the time to explain the contest (and to compete in it himself) and reminisced about a life, hard but rewarding, in the Kona coffee industry.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Kona Coffee, Kona Coffee Cultural Festival, Norman Sakata, Ueshima Coffee Farm

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