{"id":588,"date":"2017-10-18T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/?p=588"},"modified":"2020-10-24T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T20:22:23","slug":"growing-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/growing-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kona – The perfect growing environment for coffee."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kona’s coffee growing environment and conditions<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"KonaKona is the perfect coffee growing environment in the United States and arguably, in the world. Kona combines the exacting combination of\u00a0sun, soil, shade and water that coffee trees thrive in.<\/p>\n

Coffee is an extremely temperamental crop, but coffee trees take perfectly to sunny mornings cloudy, rainy and humid afternoons.
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\nIn Kona, if it doesn’t rain in the afternoon, it is usually shady. In addition, mild nights with no freezing make for ideal coffee growing conditions. \u00a0Due to this unique location and weather pattern, coffee thrives in the Kona region. The rocky terrain, temperatures<\/a>, average rainfall<\/a> and frost-free environment are a combination that is unmatched in the world. \u00a0Thus it is conducive to growing\u00a0one of the most sought-after coffees by gourmets everywhere.<\/p>\n

Kona is home to about 600-700 independent coffee farms<\/a>, most of them small and family owned. In 1997 the total Kona coffee acreage was 2,290 acres and green coffee production just over 2 million pounds. In comparison, coffee planted today in Kona equals about 3,500 acres. Producing approximately 3.8 million pounds a year. Still just a blip in comparison to the world coffee market.<\/p>\n

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Kona’s coffee growing environment and conditions Kona is the perfect coffee growing environment in the United States and arguably, in the world. Kona combines the exacting combination of\u00a0sun, soil, shade and water that coffee trees thrive in. Coffee is an extremely temperamental crop, but coffee trees take perfectly to sunny mornings cloudy, rainy and humid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,19,28,20],"tags":[12,24,15,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konacoffee.com\/kona-coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}