Recent Events

Recent Events was Originally Posted on August 20, 2006 by lavarock

I have been working a lot recently to get ready for our Kona Coffee Fair, which was held yesterday at a local shopping center. The event was a successful fundraiser for the Kona Coffee Farmers Association, which supports farmers rather than big blenders or processors.

I was tasked with finding 12 farms to donate 2 pounds of coffee. One pound each was given out each half hour in a drawing. The other pound from each farm will be shipped throughout the year to one winner of our Grand Prize. Merchants displayed contest boxes and we drew a lucky winner from those boxes. Thus, the Grand Prize winner gets 12 pounds of 100% Kona Coffee! Kinda like the coffee of the month club. This is an idea we may incorporate in the KCFA website at (KonaCoffeeFarmers.Org). By the way, we are about ready to open up the shopping cart for all of those logo items we created and to sell a few items from the event which people wanted to buy online and have shipped to their home, rather than carry it on the plane. Items will include t-shirts, caps, aprons and other apparel. We also have specially created coffee-based barbeque sauce and honey.

The local newspaper took photos and we expect the event to show up in perhaps Monday’s paper. I’ll post a link if and when.

We offered a coffee contest where the public tasted and voted on their favorite coffee. There were some surprises in the results.

We had an opportunity to tell the public about various aspects of coffee production and more people now know the difference between a blend and the real thing.

I planted another couple hundred coffee beans (parchment) to the keiki nursery. This time I made sure they were not too deep. Also, they are growing under a new shade screen, which affords 70% shade. I am still waiting on October before I can have the bulldozers come in and it appears that I may have to find a different guy to clear the land. I have not heard back from the guy I want.

Each time I visit another farm, I am reenergized to get mine in better shape.

I need to replace some of the brakes on my truck, so if all of a sudden these blog entries stop… maybe the truck didn’t…

I have updating the software on a number of shopping carts I manage for friends. There was a security bulletin and I had to go back and update a few again.

I need to recreate my Quickbooks for the year. That will not be fun! I also have to go back and clean up some data entry.

As mentioned days ago, I’m signed up to man the election polling place near me for both the Primary and General Elections. I’ve done the training and almost figured out all of the “TLA’s” (Three Letter Acronyms).

Little of the above were exciting if you were not involved, but most are fun to do.