100% Kona Coffee Goes to Washington State

Burke Museum’s “Coffee - The World in Your Cup”

KAILUA KONA, HAWAII, June 1, 2009

The Kona Coffee Farmers Association has been invited to give a tasting presentation at the Burke Museum in Seattle, WA, on Saturday, June 27th, from 11-2 pm., as part of the Burke Museum’s exhibit, “Coffee - The World in Your Cup”. The Kona Coffee Farmers will showcase one of the world’s premier coffees from the Big Island of Hawaii.

The Kona Coffee Farmers event, hosted by three Kona growers—Dexter Washburn, Motter Snell, and MaryLou Moss--will include tastings of brewed coffee from Kona farms, as well as information on the history and cultivation of this unique coffee. Grower Moss sees this as “a fabulous opportunity for Kona to show Northwesterners one of the most sought after single-origin coffees in the world--grown right here in the US.”

Bruce Corker, President of the Kona Coffee Farmers Association acknowledges Kona’s good fortune by observing that” Seattle is the coffee lovers capital of the world, and Kona Coffee growers are delighted to have our crop featured in the “Coffee--The World in your Cup” exhibit.

Dexter Washburn, a prize-winning Kona Coffee farmer, attended the opening of the exhibit in May and realized Kona Coffee was not represented. Following Washburn’s discussions with the curator of the exhibit, the Kona Coffee Farmers Association was welcomed as a contributor to the ongoing exhibit and invited to make the June 27 presentation.

Visitors and Seattle area residents are encouraged to attend the Kona Coffee event from 11-2 pm and celebrate Hawaii’s heritage agricultural crop. Come sample one of the world’s most prized coffees. Details about “Coffee- The World in Your Cup” are available on the Burke Museum’s website http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/coffee/tasting.php. For more information, call 808-896-4175.

For more information on Kona coffee visit www.konacoffeefarmers.org