In Honaunau coffee cherry is start to change their color, from green to pink or yellow, then red. To me, red cherry is a happy color, and it also says “Coffee harvest season is here”.

Like any other kind of agriculture crop, harvest season means farmer’s life getting busy and have to work extra hard than other time, as ripping crop won’t wait in the field for ever. And only harvested crop can refer to be this year’s crop, crop in the field is still belong to mother nature.

Terry and I picked the first round of ripe cherry. First round coffee is not much fun to pick for coffee picker who is picking coffee for living at this season, but it’s a very important job. Only a little bit cherry are ripe, but when you pick the ripe one also pull some tight growing branches apart. It makes future round picking easier and save more cherries on the branches.

It took us 20 days to finish picking the whole farm, and we picked 1353 pounds cherry together. It’s not a lot, but we are very happy to get the job done.

Coffee harvest season.

Yes, we are ready.