Our Kona coffee is hand picked, hand processed, and sun dried. Coffee that is drying in the sun must be raked every half hour (more or less) as it dries. This turns the wet beans so they dry evenly. Sun drying may take 5 to 7 days. The rolling roof in the background is moved over the coffee at night and in the afternoon to protect the drying beans from rain. The movable roof technique was developed by the early Japanese coffee farmers on the Kona coast. In Kona today these roofs are called ochidona, or "moving roof" in Japanese.