Puna Farmers Markets
Puna is host to several large Farmers Markets offering up some of the island’s best produce, delicious cuisine and handmade crafts.
Winner of the Tripadvisor’s Certificate of Excellence award for the last 5 years, Hilo Coffee Mill is a great coffee house. Serving incredibly fresh and delicious 100% Hawaiian coffees, including the Aloha Joe Signature Blend, Ka’u District, Kona Estate, and Maui (Mokka), the coffee house also offers a wonderful menu full of tasty sandwiches, fresh smoothies, and yummy pastries.
Along with offering great food and drinks, Hilo Coffee Mill also sells several different types of high-quality tea, Hawaiian music CD’s, and a wide array of fun gifts and merchandise, including adorable branded mugs and travel cups, macadamia nut brittle, handmade soap, Hawaiian Coffee gift packs, and much more.
With a great reputation for having friendly staff, and also offering green coffee options, flavored coffee, and roasted coffee, Hilo Coffee Mill is truly a unique and diverse coffee house. For a great coffee experience, look no further than Hilo Coffee Mill.
Tours
Located on lush and beautiful grounds with flowers, trees and chickens as far as the eye can see, one of the best aspects about Hilo Coffee Mill is the fact that they offer informative and enjoyable visitor tours.
The 1.5 hour guided visitor tour includes a walk-thru the coffee fields to learn about planting, growing and picking coffee by hand. Then you venture to the pulping area to learn about the pulping and fermenting process. You then move on to find out about the challenges of drying coffee in a wet tropical climate and finally head to the special roasting room and learn tons of interesting and insightful information. From here, you get to try some tasty coffee!
This tour has a per person fee and can be booked on their website.
A shorter free version of the tour is available as well.
Contact
Website
Hours
Fri, Sun, Mon Closed
Tues-Thur 9am-4pm
Sat 9am-2pm
Location and Map
17-995 Volcano Rd.
Mountain View, HI 96771
Puna is host to several large Farmers Markets offering up some of the island’s best produce, delicious cuisine and handmade crafts.
Puna is a massive, diverse region that provides easy access to the frequent lava activity of the Big Island as well as incredible sightseeing and hiking.
The Big Island experienced an eruption of Kilauea during the summer of 2018, marking some of the most significant seismic activity in decades.