Here's a clip from our Kona Coffee write-up in the NICE Things section.

Kona Coffee is known to be a high quality, highly sought after and highly priced caffeine fix. But what many of us do not know is just how much of an all around good thing Kona Coffee is for the environment and the people of the western coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i. Not too mention, Kona is America’s greatest coffee producing region. Kona beans are literally hand picked, one at a time. Bean quality is carefully graded by the State of Hawai’i Department of Agriculture in order to qualify as pure Kona. This scrutiny ensures that plantations place a high priority on those picking the beans and the land on which the trees grow. Indeed, field workers are well paid and taken care of and many plantations voluntarily opt to implement environmentally sustainable farm practices.
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