This story starts in 2010 when our family planted the first coffee trees 1,200 feet above Papa'aloa on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Back then we were still hacking away at guinea grass and waiawi that had taken hold after the sugar industry left the Hamakua Coast. Nowadays we're still growing Red Caturra coffee, about three acres of it, producing cacao, vanilla and white pineapple, amongst other things.