The STORY behind your coffee MATTERS.
You care about where your coffee comes from, how it’s grown, who harvests it and the impact it has on our communities.
Good. Authenticity matters to us too.
MISMA LANI FARMS is a family-owned & operated coffee farm that has supported our tight-knit Kona community here on the Big Island of Hawaii for more than 15 years.
Sipping our coffee doesn’t get more local than this.
Our Unique Story
The stories behind how most coffee companies get started usually don’t involve a dedicated migrant worker saving enough to buy farmland—but ours does. After a decade of manual labor, Misma Lani began with years of savings and a whole lot of coffee love. This is our livelihood, we aspire to always give back to the land and community.
A Sustainable Brew
Kona coffee is synonymous with small-batch, specialty roasts that are as flavorful as the rich, volcanic soil they are harvested from. Our sustainable process ensures the fair trade ethics our coffee and employees deserve, and that mass-produced beans often miss.
Authentically Kona
If the Big Island is our heart and soul, then Kona is in our DNA. When we chose to make Kona our home decades ago, it meant that Aloha ʻĀina (love of the land) extended beyond our coffee harvest. To respect our community and land, we must invest in it daily.
OUR PROCESS
Maintenance
What many coffee consumers don’t know is that a current harvest has been worked on and maintained for the prior 3 years! Maintenance includes fertilizing, pruning, vertical selection, pest control, and many other tasks all before fruit-bearing branches can be harvested.
Harvesting
Our experienced pickers know exactly which beans have matured and released their natural sugars. After picking, beans are wet milled—which is the process of drying them—and taken for different methods of processing based on consumer needs: Washed, Honey, and Natural.
Sorting & Grading
After the drying, beans are expertly graded and sorted by size. Any defects are meticulously taken. Finally, you have green beans that are ready to be roasted to the profile of your liking!
Meet Victoria
At 20 years old, Victoria had a choice. Take over the family coffee business or finish college at the University of Hawaii.
Spoiler alert: she did both.
Facing the unprecedented deportation of her father and owner of Misma Lani — whom many called a pillar in the Kona coffee community — Victoria stepped up and ensured the livelihood of her family, employees, and local Kona farming community was not lost.
Today, her family-owned 5-acre coffee farm operation supports several other local coffee farms with a tight-knit team of 5 full-time employees plus seasonal workers to help with the harvesting process.
Her devotion to collaboration within the community also means combining forces with specialty roasters in the very near future.
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