Greenwell Coffee Farms

Last Friday we visited a Kona Coffee Farm.....Greenwell Farms. We went to get coffee and ended up having a little adventure.

We took the tour and ended up not taking any pictures on the actual tour....what was I thinking? There were two girls working that day and both were really great with Jillian, showing her all kinds of neat things. Jillian is being shown "sleeping grass". It is a fern like grass, that when touched withers, browns and sleeps. Then after a bit, it wakes up and looks normal again. Too funny!

The shop....very cute. They have a resident cat at the shop who Jillian fell in love with. Jillian gave her lots of hugs....and the cat (named Kitty) was very tolerant with all the love.

All around the shop are the biggest citrus and avocado trees. In fact, since we just planted lemon, lime, orange and banana trees in our backyard, I started wondering if we made a mistake. Anyway, lizards (a member of the chameleon family) live in the lime trees. The girl working, I think her name was Samantha, said that 7-9 lizards live in each tree. We were on a mission to find a lizard....she found one and we each got to hold this very cute and very calm baby female.

Well, Jillian opted not to hold the lizard and simply enjoyed her from a safe distance.