Greenwell Farms

I took the tour which was informative & about ½ HR. The tour guide was pleasant, but at some points sounded like she was reading from a script. Excellent coffee, but it is pricey. You come to understand why kona coffee cost so much.

Tours are free, informative, and run every 30-​minutes! We arrived about 15 minutes before our tour and tasted the coffee samples and browsed the gift shop. All of their coffee is top-​notch, but my personal favorite is the chocolate macadamia nut. Our tour guide was friendly and knowledgable about the coffee making process and the history of the farm. Quick, fun spot to hit while visiting Kona!

Great FREE tour — both informative and engaging! I’m not a coffee drinker but everyone in my groups seemed to enjoy what they tried.

This place is a must visit if you’re in Kona. The tour was great, the people are friendly, the farm and scenery are unbelievable, and the coffee is excellent. The tour is free as well so you need to GO DRINK COFFEE AND ENJOY THE VIEWS!

Great informative tour… keeping it local… Kawena was an awesome tour guide. Tour was around 45 minutes for us

We stumbled upon this little gem after getting rained out of Two Step and we are so glad we did! Greenwell Farm boasts some really delicious and legit Kona coffee. The staff were so friendly on the tour– which was ~free~ and very educational! I learned so much about coffee and then process from it growing as a cherry to becoming brewable drinkable Java. They have really cool special varieties like one brew from 100 year old coffee trees! The farm also is home to an adorable squad of chickens, cute old dogs, and other fruits including avocados and apple bananas that we got to try. Greenwell is well worth a visit!

Awesome experience here! My husband randomly found this coffee farm on Unilocal and we decided to go here. Daniel was a great, informative and engaging tour guide (plus the tour is free!). The tour wasn’t very long either (maybe 20 – 25 minutes), which is good news for a lady in her third trimester of pregnancy. Cute little gift shop as well. Staff are very hospitable, and give no pressure to buy anything. When we got back to California, we actually found a coffee shop downtown that imported all their Kona coffee from greenwell farms! So interesting to think that we were just at that coffee farm a few days prior! Visiting Greenwell farms was one of the biggest highlights of our vacation!

I am not a HUGE fan of Kona coffee, but I am a fan of coffee in general. I am also a fan of things that are free. We went on a free tour of the coffee plantation. The tours seemed to go every 30 minutes or so. When you first go there, follow the signs down the hill and find a place to park. They had about 8 – 10 different coffee selections sitting out for coffee tasting. They don’t have cream or sugar, so don’t treat this like a Starbucks or DD run.
The tour guide was a young man who took us around for about a 30 minute tour. Very enlightening, since I knew nothing about coffee plants or beans. Another learning opportunity for my kids.
The tour ended back at the coffee tasting and gift shop. Of course we bought some coffee to bring back. Man the stuff is expensive, but there are folks that swear by it and love the coffee. Bring them back some…
Good use of our time and the kids enjoyed it. Worth the visit.

Free coffee tour while in Kona? Yes, please!
Greenwell is the oldest coffee farm in Kona and is considered the well-​established operation here. Still, their farm felt very intimate and offered an impressive array of different types of coffee. Our tour guide was very thorough and took us through their coffee plant fields and operations.
They offer many free tastings of the different roasts and kinds of coffee their farm has to offer. I especially liked the Private Select and the Onoulli beans. This is a must-​visit for any serious coffee vistor coming to Kona.

Local coffee farm that only sells the coffee at their store. Therefore, if you like it it’s a good idea to pick it up while you’re there because you won’t find it anywhere else. Informative free 20 minute tour. Free tasting of 8 – 10 different varieties.

Amanda was our very informative tour guide. This family run coffee farm is well worth your time. They also grow fruit and avocado etc. There is a small gift shop to purchase fresh coffee which we did. You may also tip your guide.

I can’t speak highly enough of this place. The tour was super laid back and they started right when we got there with no appointment or anything. Our tour guide was really smart and well informed, and answered all our questions about the coffee and the inner workings of the farm. The tour was also free, unlike a few other plantations on the island. Then we got to the coffee sampling, which was super fun. No pressure to buy anything, but I got a ton of stuff. If you go to no other plantation whilst in Kona and you go to this one, you’ll have seen the best of the best!

The best Kona coffee I had, I esp. like the Onouli estate coffee! The after taste just lingered in your mouth…

Such a fun experience! We pulled up just in time for the last tour of the day! I’m so glad we made it in time. Our guide (I’m sorry but his name escapes me at the moment), was awesome. He clearly has so much passion for what Greenwell Farms is all about.
I loved getting to walk around the farm and really see the production. I love the education given in a comfortable atmosphere that didn’t feel pushy at all.
Kona coffees don’t tend to be my favorites, but I understand why they are so special. The very small growing region that can produce these cherries is tiny and make this a very specialty product. The samples of the roasts for tasting range from a medium roast to their dark espresso roast. I lean toward their lighter roasts, but found their Full-​city roast to be the most balanced on my pallet.

Excellent experience. My husband and I took a tour of their beautiful plantation. We got to see chameleons, and the whole process of how coffee is made. And now I’m pretty much addicted to the Mac Nut Coffee — it’s unreal!

I visited Greenwell Farms for the tour and tasting.
The tour is fairly long and a lot of it includes stories related to the farm but not related to coffee. There was some interesting information and the farm is beautiful but the the guide also gave some incorrect facts and ended the tour with a hard sell on green coffee extract (we actually walked off the your at this point).
The coffee tasting wasn’t impressive. Out of 8 choices only one was a non-​dark roast. If you’re a roaster who’s not balanced towards lighter roasts then you aren’t serious about coffee. None of the coffee blew me away but still I considered buying a bag to try at home with my own brew. $ 22 for 8oz of whole bean! lol! You can find incredible roasts for half that price all up and down the West Coast.
If you want a coffee tour in Kona, try somewhere else and hopefully get better results.
btw — I normally don’t recommend Starbucks but the Kona coffee I had at Starbucks was impressive. Lighter roast served as ice coffee. I think the only time I truly enjoyed a cup from Starbucks.

Bug spray recommended, lol. I fed like 15+ flying vampires here XD.
Before our trip to the island, I was looking for coffee tours. We knew that we didn’t like a hard-​sell, heavily commercial type of tour, so Greenwell seemed like the best choice for us. It was our only coffee tour but it felt like we experienced it all. This isn’t a tasting tour where you are taught how to examine coffee. They let their coffee speaks for itself and you be the judge.
The tour is free. It’s not announced during the tour at all but there is a tip basket. I like how unassuming this is. I do recommend tipping if you thought the tour was rewarding, which we certainly did!
We spent about an hour on the farm including the tour, and if you’d like to go to other places, this takes only a small part of your day.
When we dropped in, Ann warmly welcomed us to sample their coffees. She let us know a tour was starting soon if we’re interested. There were 13 carafes on the table, including 1 decaf. A quick pump was a few small sips. Believe me, after my 5^th sample, I was getting pretty java’ed up. It’s piping hot so be careful and not let your excitement burn your tongue, :)
Our favorites were the Mac Nut, Full City Roast, and Private Reserve. The Mac Nut was the most intense Mac Nut I’ve ever tried, and pretty robust flavors in Full City and Private Reserve.
Ann was our guide. She was down-​to-​earth, and her tour was interactive and conversational. She handed us an umbrella to keep dry.
We learned about the Greenwell family and the farm’s history, as well as the climate, the process from growing to roasting. We didn’t see all of it in operation, but nevertheless, the tour, albeit free, was informative and a cool learning experience. Pretty awesome that she also introduced us to other fruit trees, lizards, and the two dogs on the farm. She also compared her own experience from touring a chocolate farm on the island with the coffee making process.
At the end, we purchased 2 8-​oz full beans: Full City Roast and Mac nut. At nearly $ 40/​lb, you’re purchasing hand-​picked, freshly roasted batches.
A week later, we opened our full city roast at home and saw residual oil on the beans. It’s great for pour over/​french press, delicious. We enjoyed our first cups with a mooncake, a belated Autumn Moon Festival. ^_^

Very informative coffee farm tour, with the oldest coffee trees on the island!
And before or after the tour, you get many different free coffee samples to taste to find your favorite :)

Oddly enough, this tour was one of the highlights of our 6 day trip to the Big Island. Sample coffee, appreciate the beauty of the farm, learn about the process of making coffee, and island history as a bonus.
I was really impressed with how organized it is, they seem to just run tours as soon as they get enough people (around 15 – 20). While you wait, you sample 10 different coffees. Once the tour starts they slowly walk you through a small portion of the farm, providing the history, showing you their fruit & avocado trees, as well as teaching you about the coffee plants (of various ages and stages of growing the «cherries».)
Fun fact: about 20% of Kona coffee is produced on the farm.
We went home with some ground macadamia nut Kona coffee and some chocolate covered treats. Spent about an hour here total but it was a pretty drive, interesting and informative. I highly recommend as how often do you get an opportunity to visit a coffee farm?

Hands down one of my top three favorite experiences during our time in Hawaii. Our tour guide, made the experience relaxed, conversational and interactive. I left wishing he was an expert on everything and could give me tours wherever I go. The tour started off with casual coffee sampling outside on the porch surrounded by a grove of avocado trees and mini gift shop with coffee products as well as Hawaiian honey, coffee bean bags and more. From there we learned briefly about the avocado and banana trees on site followed by the coffee cherry growth process, history of the farm, Hawaii’s coffee industry and the business side of things. It was really neat to hear just how large the farm is (65,000 trees) and later that one of my favorite coffee roasteries in Indianapolis used to carry their beans — Bee Coffee Roasters.
We learned that red coffee cherries are the ones that go to harvest and the redder the better. Smaller coffee farmers in the area sell their product to Greenwell. The tour itself last for somewhere between 30 minutes and 45 minutes. If you get a chance to try the coffee, I highly recommend the chocolate macadamia variety (especially for those of us who are not regular expert coffee drinkers).