ALOHA FROM THE BUCKINGHAMS Check out these wonderful ripe coffee beans. Pottery Studio w/coffee drying floor below Welcome, We are glad you found our web site.   Take a few miniutes and click on the pictures of our Kona Coffee Farm.  On the left is a picture of our old coffee processing mill.  The lower level is where the coffee is pulped and dried.        Here is where the pottery is formed on the wheel.  It is tough to have such an awesome view of God's beautiful creation while working with the clay.  There are places to sit and watch if you are able to spare some time.  We make raku and crystaline glazed pottery.  There should be a good selection of mugs to go with a pound of coffee too.      Kealakekua Bay       This is a shot from the lani looking down into Kealakekua Bay.  It is so nice to be able to see so much of the coastline.  Our coffee trees are at the bottom of the picture, and Keei beach is near the top point.   After the ripe coffee bean is picked, it is pulped.  This is where the outer ripe red skin in removed.  Then it soaks in its juices overnight.  In the morning we wash the coffee and spread it out on the drying floor.  It is raked daily for the next week or so.  When it is dry it is called parchment.  There is still a paper-like skin on the green bean.  This is removed with a machine called a huller.  Then the green coffee beans are roasted and bagged for market. Parchment   Grinder and Huller       On the left is the huller and our special grinder.  These are essential tools to the production of our estate Kona coffee.          We would be happy to make you a real Hawaiian Shave Ice.  The key to great shave ice is truly a well kept secret.  Can you keep a secret?   well, so can we.  But the proof is in the vibrant flavor, super finely shaved  block of ice, and the cool refreshing feeling.   Coffee Flowers & Green Cherry       These are a few of the young flowers.  They have a very strong aroma, almost intoxicating when the farm is in a large bloom.  There have been 5-6 blooms this year on our farm.  The coffee cherry will ripen at different times too.      This picture of green coffee cherry was taken on the same day as the picture of the flowers.  These should be ready for picking sometime in July or August.  Branches full of coffee is a wonderful sight to see all through the Farm.  Below are a couple of shots from the roads through the farm. The red coffee beans are hand picked form the branch while leaving the green ones.  Those will ripen later and then be picked.  The best coffee is picked fully ripe, red and plump.  The 2006  season was wonderfully blessed.  In the Kona Cupping Competition this year we advanced to the final round.  It was an honor to be recognized among the great farms of Kona. I hope you have enjoyed our site.  Here is some information for you to contact us and come see the dream come true. Bill and Jane Buckingham            PO Box 1154                                 Captain Cook Hi.  96704 We are located on Highway 11 between mile marker 110 and 109.  Hopefully you will see our signs for Sacred Grounds Coffee Farm and Paradise Pottery Studio.    Phone   808-328-0836    bbucky@hawaii.rr.com Please call to make orders, we will call you right back if you like. Coffee prices are $24 lb.   $13  1/2 lb.  Plus shipping We can ship 5 lbs in a flat rate US mail box for $10  and $5 tax for a total of $135 delivered anywhere in the US.  We do tours of the farm daily. Now: May the Mercy of God the Father the Brotherhood of God the Son and the Fellowship of God the Holy Spirit Be with you always.