06-22-2025, 02:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-22-2025, 02:19 PM by Durian Fiend.)
(06-22-2025, 08:40 AM)TomK Wrote:(06-21-2025, 08:22 PM)kalianna Wrote: HOTPE, I put my response on the bicker board.
Why not respond here unless you are bickering?
Good question. It seems they are troubled by the insidious seepage of national politics into this forum and seek to limit it to the bicker board, which I don't agree with given this particular thread is still active.
Here's the latest news I've found, dated 5 days ago.
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-...ids-so-far "Kona coffee fields spared ICE raids so far"
“I've seen nothing to show or even tell me that there's any policing or raiding, and nothing through the coconut wireless as of yet,” said Roger Kaiwi, a Kona coffee farmer and the president of the Kona Coffee Council. “Not to say that it's not gonna happen, but I've seen nothing … Each day I'm in probably four to five coffee farms — a couple hundred acres — and I've seen no sign of anything like that.”
One reason is that there isn't a lot of labor in local coffee fields right now. Coffee harvest season starts roughly in August and runs through March, so there hasn't been much to do on coffee fields..."