"... Kauai Coffee is a fully integrated premium specialty coffee company. What that means is that we grow the coffee and put it all the way to the bag, all here on the island of Kauai. To do that, we have about 4 million coffee trees, and we farm about 3,000 acres. We harvest anywhere from 10 to 12 million pounds of cherry coffee, which needs to be processed into about a million to 2 million pounds of green coffee."
"In 2022, Colorado real estate investment firm Brue Baukol Capital Partners purchased 18,000 acres, including the Kauai Coffee lands, from agricultural and real estate firm Alexander & Baldwin. Brue Baukol also assumed the remainder of the current Kauai Coffee lease, which is set to expire in March 2026. For more than 100 years prior, Alexander & Baldwin had been the landowner, first growing sugar before transitioning to coffee in 1987."
Kauai Coffee Company, the largest coffee grower in Hawaii and the contiguous U.S., faces possible closure as its lease ends in March 2026. The company has farmed thousands of acres and millions of coffee trees on southwest Kauai for 39 years, attracting about 350,000 visitors annually for tastings and tours and employing generations of island residents. Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group has operated the company since 2011 but does not own the land. In 2022 Brue Baukol Capital Partners purchased 18,000 acres including the coffee lands and assumed the remaining lease. Operations include roughly 4 million trees on about 3,000 acres and 141 employees.
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