Behind the Cup |November 20, 2013 |By Greenwell Farms

Grafting Coffee – Root Science

In this short educational video, Tom Greenwell narrates as employee Riley demonstrates the specific steps involved in grafting coffee, as practiced at Greenwell Farms. He also describes the reasons they graft coffee and how the use of it can help to combat nematodes in the soil.

Greenwell Farms is a coffee farming and processing company in the heart of Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. Their primary goal is to provide coffee lovers around the world a unique coffee experience. They asked Mahi’ai Creative and Gum Design to produce this video in the hope that if you ever come to the Big Island, you will stop in and say hello, take their coffee tour and enjoy a cup of Kona’s finest. Visit them online at – greenwellfarms.com.

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