The Kona Coffee Living History Farm keeps alive a rapidly disappearing way of life that is unique in American culture, yet typical in the district of Kona on the island of Hawaii. The Kona Coffee Living History Farm is the only living history farm in the state of Hawaii. Families working early Kona coffee farms strived to be self-sufficient, growing much of their own food and producing many goods with their own labor. The women supplemented family incomes through cottage industries such as sewing clothing, weaving lauhala, and preparing and processing food to sell. Kona coffee farm families placed a high value on frugality, hard work, and education.
Tour groups are small, usually with no more than twelve visitors per guide.
The tours provide each person with a unique personalized experience of a family coffee farm during the years 1925 to 1945. The Kona Coffee Living History Farm tours are about 2 to 2 hours and will be provided by reservations only. The Kona Coffee Living History Farm is located approximately three miles south of the Greenwell Store Museum in Kealakekua, South Kona on the island of Hawaii in the heart of the Kona Coffee Belt. Visitors to the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, which was homesteaded in 1900, are welcomed and greeted by uniformed guides and costumed interpreters. Visitors will be guided through the producing coffee orchard, which include diversified plantings of macadamia nut, avocado, papaya and citrus trees.