Kona Coffee Cultural Festival

Since its inception in 1970, the grass roots Kona Coffee Cultural Festival organization has sought to preserve, perpetuate and promote Kona's unique nearly 200-year Coffee heritage. As Hawaii's oldest food Festival and its only Coffee Festival in the united states. The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival promotes agri-tourism annually during the november shoulder season with the intention that visitors and residents discover and experience Kona Coffee and the unique history, heritage and lifestyle. With over 40 events ranging from farm tours, Coffee workshops, to picking contests, visitors and residents have every opportunity to participate. The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival's intent is to promote the personalized interaction between tourism and agriculture and to strengthen agriculture tourism in Hawaii. The Festival and the local community embrace visitors and residents by sharing rhe unique history and culture of Kona Coffee pioneers, farmers and artisian through its over 40 events that celebrate the Kona Coffee lifestyle.