There is a moment that happens to almost every visitor who walks onto a working farm in Hawaii. They pick up a coffee cherry, still warm from the sun, and they realize that the cup they drank this morning in their hotel lobby and the living plant in front of them are the same thing. That moment changes how they think about every food gift they will ever buy again.
The phrase "farm to table" has been used so often in restaurant marketing that it has started to blur at the edges. But when you apply that idea to gifts, something sharper comes into focus. A farm-to-table gift is not just a product with a pretty label. It is something grown in a specific place, by specific people, under specific conditions that cannot be reproduced anywhere else on earth. When you hand someone that gift, you are handing them a piece of a place.
Hawaii is experiencing a quiet but meaningful shift right now. Farmers are building direct relationships with restaurants, schools, and consumers. Buyers are asking harder questions about where things come from. And travelers are increasingly choosing experiences that put them face to face with the people who grow their food. This shift matters especially here, on islands that import the overwhelming majority of what they consume, because what is grown locally is genuinely precious.
At Buddha's Cup, we sit in the middle of all of this. We are a working farm in Holualoa, in the heart of the Kona Coffee Belt, and everything we sell traces back to this land. Our coffee is grown here, processed here, and roasted here. Our mamaki tea grows on the same slopes as our coffee trees. Our rum cakes are made using coffee from our farm. When you buy from us, whether you are standing in our farmyard or shopping from a kitchen table in Minnesota, you are buying directly from the grower.
This article is for anyone who wants to give a Hawaii gift that actually means something. We will cover what farm-to-table gifting really means in a Hawaii context, why the stakes are uniquely high on these islands, what we grow and make here at Buddha's Cup, how to choose the right gift for every person and every budget, and how to avoid the common traps that turn well-meaning souvenir purchases into disappointments. We will also talk about why your purchasing decision is part of something much larger than a single gift. To get a sense of what a visit to the source looks like, start with what happens during a Kona coffee farm tour and you will understand immediately why the experience of buying at the farm is unlike anything else.
What "Farm to Table Gifts" Actually Means in Hawaii, And Why It Matters More Here Than Anywhere Else
The Geography of Scarcity and the Value of What Grows Here
Hawaii is the most geographically isolated island chain on earth. That isolation is part of what makes it beautiful, and it is also what makes local agriculture so extraordinary and so fragile. The state imports roughly 85 to 90 percent of its food. What is grown here is not just fresh. It is rare. It is the product of a specific combination of volcanic soil, altitude, rainfall, temperature, and human care that exists nowhere else.
Consider something as seemingly simple as passion fruit. Only five countries in the world can export fresh passion fruit to the United States, which illustrates just how constrained and precious local supply chains can be even for crops that seem common. When you apply that same lens to Kona coffee or Hawaiian mamaki tea, the picture becomes even clearer. These are not products that happen to come from Hawaii. They are products that could only come from Hawaii.
The Kona Coffee Belt runs for about 30 miles along the western slopes of Mauna Loa and Hualalai. Within that belt, elevation matters. Cloud cover matters. The timing of afternoon rain matters. The volcanic soil, rich in minerals deposited over thousands of years of geological activity, contributes directly to the flavor profile of every cup. Farms like ours in Holualoa sit at the precise elevation where morning sun and afternoon cloud work together to slow the ripening of the coffee cherry, concentrating its sugars and acids in ways that lower-altitude growing cannot replicate. You cannot take these conditions and move them somewhere cheaper to operate. The land is the product.
When you buy a Hawaii-grown product directly from the farm that grew it, you are touching one of the most geographically isolated agricultural systems on earth. That is not marketing language. That is a fact of geology and geography that makes every authentic Hawaii farm-to-table gift genuinely irreplaceable.
The Difference Between "Hawaii-Themed" and "Hawaii-Grown"
Walk through any airport gift shop in Honolulu or any souvenir store near Waikiki and you will find hundreds of products with the word "Hawaii" on them. Macadamia nut chocolates packaged in cellophane printed with hibiscus flowers. Coffee bags with Mauna Kea silhouettes on the front. Tea tins with sea turtle illustrations. Many of these products are made somewhere other than Hawaii. Some of them contain no Hawaiian-grown ingredients at all.
This is the souvenir industry's uncomfortable reality, and it catches well-meaning gift buyers every single time. The packaging looks like Hawaii. The price feels like Hawaii. But the product inside has little or nothing to do with the land, the farmers, or the food culture of these islands.
The most common trap in coffee is the "Kona Blend." Under current regulations, a bag labeled "Kona Blend" needs to contain as little as ten percent Kona coffee. The other ninety percent can be coffee from anywhere in the world. That bag costs a fraction of what 100% Kona Coffee costs, and it delivers a fraction of what the buyer thinks they are purchasing. The only way to be certain you are getting the real thing is to look for "100% Kona Coffee" on the label, and better still, to buy it from the farm that grew it.
Mamaki tea is another example. Mamaki is a flowering plant in the nettle family that is endemic to Hawaii. It grows here and essentially nowhere else at any meaningful commercial scale. If a product is labeled as genuine Hawaiian mamaki tea, it came from these islands. But the safest way to verify that is to buy it from a farm where you can see the plants growing. We grow mamaki here at Buddha's Cup on the same slopes as our coffee, and we can show you the plants if you visit.
Buying direct from the grower removes all ambiguity about where something came from. There is no importer's warehouse in the middle, no repackaging facility, no relabeling. You know who grew it, where, and when. That clarity is itself a part of the gift. Understanding the connection between health benefits and using local ingredients helps explain why provenance is not just an ethical consideration but a practical one for anyone who cares about what they put into their body.
Hawaii's Agricultural Moment, A Movement Worth Supporting With Your Wallet
Something significant is happening in Hawaii agriculture right now, and it is happening fast enough that your gifting decisions this year actually matter to its outcome.
The farm-to-table movement is accelerating across the islands. Farmers on Oahu's North Shore and in Waialua are building direct relationships with restaurants, cutting out the distributors that once stood between the field and the plate. Chefs are driving to farms on their days off to taste new varieties before they commit to a menu. Consumers are showing up at farmers markets and asking questions they never used to ask. This momentum is real and it is building.
At the same time, the farming community is facing a crisis that does not get enough attention. The average Hawaii farmer is nearly 61 years old. Many of these farms have no succession plan, no next generation waiting to take over. Kauai alone lost nearly 250 farms between 2017 and 2022. When a family farm closes, it often closes permanently. The land does not automatically become a farm again when new owners arrive. The knowledge, the relationships, the specific cultivars that have been grown and refined over decades, all of that disappears.
Every direct purchase from a Hawaii farm is, in a very real sense, an act of preservation. When you buy 100% Kona Coffee from Buddha's Cup instead of a Kona Blend from a big-box retailer, the difference in revenue to the farm is not trivial. It is the kind of difference that determines whether a farm can hire a second person during harvest season, whether it can invest in drying equipment that improves quality, or whether the next generation of the family sees farming as a viable future.
Hawaii's state government has recognized this urgency. A farm-to-school initiative is currently targeting 30 percent local food in school meals by 2030. That goal reflects a statewide commitment to building a local food economy that can sustain itself, but it only works if consumer demand supports it at every level, including in the gifts people choose to give. When you choose a Hawaii farm-to-table gift bought directly from the grower, you are voting with your wallet for a food system that is worth having.
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Holualoa, the Kona Coffee Belt, and Why This Land Produces Something Special
Holualoa sits above Kailua-Kona on the slopes of Hualalai at an elevation that places it in what coffee farmers call the sweet spot of the Kona Coffee Belt. The belt itself is a narrow strip, roughly 30 miles long and just a few miles wide, running along the western coast of Hawaii Island. Within that strip, conditions change quickly with elevation. Too low and the afternoons are too hot for the cherry to ripen slowly. Too high and frost risk becomes a concern. The middle elevations, where Holualoa sits, receive morning sun that energizes the trees and afternoon cloud cover that cools them gently, slowing the ripening process in a way that concentrates flavor compounds that cannot be artificially induced.
The rainfall in this zone is reliable but not excessive. The volcanic soil is well-draining, which prevents root rot, and it is rich in minerals that have been building up in the substrate since Hualalai last erupted. Iron, magnesium, potassium: these are not additives that farmers apply to the soil. They are native to the land itself, and they contribute to the flavor of the coffee in ways that soil science is still working to fully understand.
When we decided to grow mamaki tea alongside coffee on our farm, it was not just a business diversification. Mamaki is native to these slopes. It has grown here for far longer than coffee has. Growing it alongside our coffee trees felt like an acknowledgment that this land has its own agricultural history that predates the Kona coffee industry by centuries. The two crops share the same volcanic foundation, and that connection is something we are proud to reflect in the gifts that leave our farm.
Understanding the technical care that goes into maintaining quality, including details like the ideal humidity levels for drying Kona beans, helps illustrate how much precision is involved in producing the product you eventually hold in your hands.
From Cherry to Cup, The Full Production Story
Coffee farming looks romantic from the outside, and in certain moments it genuinely is. Standing in the rows at harvest time, with the trees heavy with red cherries and the air smelling of ripe fruit, there is something deeply satisfying about it. But the reality of producing high-quality Kona coffee is primarily a story of relentless attention to detail across a process that takes the better part of a year from flowering to roasted bean.
It begins with hand-picking. This is non-negotiable for quality. Coffee cherries on a single branch do not all ripen at the same time. A mechanical harvester strips everything off regardless of readiness, which means unripe and overripe cherries end up in the same batch, compromising the flavor of the final cup. We hand-pick selectively, returning to each tree multiple times during harvest season to take only the cherries that have reached peak ripeness. This is slower, more expensive, and more labor-intensive than mechanical harvesting. It is also the reason our coffee tastes the way it does.
After picking, the cherries go through wet milling, where the outer fruit is removed to expose the green bean inside. The beans are then fermented in water to remove the remaining mucilage layer, washed, and laid out to dry on raised drying beds. Drying takes time and monitoring. Beans dried too quickly become brittle. Beans dried too slowly can develop mold. Humidity, temperature, and airflow all have to be managed carefully through this stage.
Once dried, the beans go through hulling to remove the parchment layer, then through sorting by size, density, and color to separate out defects. What remains goes to roasting, which we do in small batches to ensure consistency and freshness. The roasting process itself is where the flavors developed during growing and processing are finally expressed in full.
Our mamaki leaves are harvested by hand, dried carefully to preserve their color and the compounds that make them valuable, and then prepared for blending or packaging. The rum cakes that have become one of our most popular gift items are made using our own coffee, which means the same beans that went through that entire process end up expressed again in a baked form that ships beautifully and surprises people with how good it tastes.
The science behind what makes this coffee so worth the effort is explained well in our look at Kona coffee antioxidant content, which shows that the nutritional profile of well-grown, carefully processed Kona coffee is part of what makes it genuinely different from commodity coffee.
What "Direct from the Grower" Means for Price, Freshness, and Connection
When you buy coffee through a typical retail channel, the price you pay at the register reflects the costs and margins of everyone who touched the product between the farm and you: the exporter, the importer, the distributor, the retailer. Each one takes a cut. By the time the final price is set, the farm that grew the coffee may be receiving thirty cents or less of every dollar you spend.
When you buy directly from Buddha's Cup, that chain collapses. There is no importer. There is no distributor. There is no wholesale middleman marking up a product they had no part in growing. The price you pay reflects the actual cost of producing something exceptional, and the farm receives the full value of what it created. This is good for you because it means you are getting something genuinely premium. It is good for us because it means we can invest in the farm, in our team, and in the quality of what we grow.
Freshness is the other enormous difference. Coffee that travels through a typical distribution chain may sit in a warehouse for weeks or months before it reaches a retail shelf, then sit on that shelf for additional weeks before you buy it. By the time you open the bag, the coffee has been oxidizing for far longer than it should have been. We roast to order and to our fresh stock schedule. The beans in your bag were alive and active not long before you received them, and that difference is immediately apparent in the cup.
The human element is harder to quantify but equally real. When you give someone a bag of Buddha's Cup coffee, you can tell them exactly where it came from. You can describe the farm. You can point them to our tour so they can see it themselves. That specificity transforms the gift from a product into a story. The Hawaii Growers Association frames farm visits as the foundation of direct community connection, and we see that play out every week with guests who come to the farm, buy coffee to take home, and then order online for the rest of the year because they now feel a genuine relationship with the place that grew it.
If you want to continue that relationship over time, our coffee subscription is the most direct way to do it. Fresh Kona coffee arriving on a schedule you set, from the same farm, every month.
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Kona Coffee Gifts, From Everyday Drinkers to True Connoisseurs
Kona coffee is the most recognized agricultural product in Hawaii, and for good reason. When it is grown well, processed carefully, and roasted with attention, it produces a cup that is notably different from almost anything else available. The acidity is bright but not sharp. The body is smooth and medium-full. The finish is clean and long. These qualities are not marketing claims. They are the natural result of the conditions we described earlier: the soil, the elevation, the cloud cover, the hand-picking, the careful processing.
At Buddha's Cup, we offer our 100% Kona Coffee across a range of roasts to suit different preferences. Light roasts preserve more of the delicate, fruity, and floral notes that develop during growing and processing. Medium roasts balance those origin characteristics with the caramel and nutty notes that develop during roasting. Dark roasts lead with bold, roasty flavors that work particularly well with milk or cream. For a gift, it is worth considering what the recipient's daily coffee habits look like. Someone who drinks black coffee in the morning will probably prefer a medium roast that lets the Kona character shine through. Someone who drinks lattes may enjoy the dark roast's assertiveness through milk foam.
Our Kona Peaberry is worth highlighting specifically because it represents a natural anomaly that makes for an exceptional gift. Most coffee cherries contain two flat-sided beans growing face to face. Occasionally, one bean does not develop and the other grows alone into a rounded, pea-shaped bean. This peaberry tends to roast more evenly because of its symmetrical shape, and many coffee drinkers find that it has a more concentrated, complex flavor than standard beans from the same harvest. It is rarer and it shows, in both the cup and the conversation it starts when you explain what it is.
Coffee subscriptions make thoughtful ongoing gifts. Rather than a one-time bag, the recipient gets a monthly delivery of fresh Kona coffee, and each delivery is a reminder of the person who gave it and the farm it came from. For someone who would genuinely use it, it may be the most appreciated gift they receive all year.
If you are unsure which roast to choose for your recipient, a Hawaii gift card lets them make that choice themselves. Gift cards work particularly well for the coffee drinker who has opinions about their preferences and would rather select their own roast level and grind size. It is also a natural starting point for someone new to Kona coffee who wants to explore before committing to a subscription.
For the recipient who drinks coffee every day and simply wants the best version of their daily ritual, our guide to Kona coffee as your everyday cup explains how to get the most out of each bag and why making the switch from commodity coffee to estate-grown Kona changes the experience fundamentally.
Perfect for: coffee enthusiasts at any level, corporate gifting, holiday giving, host and hostess gifts, teachers, mentors, and anyone who deserves something genuinely special in their morning.
Mamaki Tea Gifts, The Endemic Hawaiian Herb Most People Have Never Heard Of
Most people who visit Hawaii for the first time have never heard of mamaki. By the time they leave, it is often one of the things they remember most. That gap between unfamiliarity and appreciation is exactly what makes it such a compelling gift.
Mamaki is a flowering plant in the nettle family that is endemic to Hawaii. It grows here and essentially nowhere else at any meaningful commercial scale. For centuries, it was an important plant in traditional Hawaiian wellness practice. The leaves were brewed as a tea to support general health, and the plant was regarded as a gift from the land rather than simply a resource to be harvested. Today, that tradition continues both on farms like ours and in the homes of people who have discovered that mamaki makes an exceptionally pleasant and genuinely nourishing cup of tea.
The commercial importance of native Hawaiian botanicals has grown substantially in recent years. Local herb production in Hawaii reached nearly 18 million pounds in 2024, with a value approaching 43 million dollars, representing more than a 50 percent increase in value since 2019. That growth reflects genuine consumer demand for herbs that are authentically grown in Hawaii and can be traced to specific farms. Mamaki is part of that story.
From a health perspective, mamaki is naturally caffeine-free, which makes it accessible to people who cannot or choose not to drink coffee or traditional tea. It contains antioxidants and has been associated with supporting healthy blood pressure and blood sugar levels in traditional Hawaiian practice, though we always encourage people to look at the existing research and consult their own healthcare providers when making health decisions. What we can say with confidence is that mamaki tastes good, it comes from this land, and it carries a cultural significance that makes it more than just another herbal tea.
Our Big Island Gift Pack featuring mamaki tea blends is an ideal starting point for someone new to Hawaiian tea. It introduces the plant in a format that is easy to explore, and it pairs naturally with other elements of the Hawaiian food and wellness tradition. For gifting ideas that go further, consider pairing mamaki tea with local honey, with a guided farm tour booking, or with our ginger blends for a fuller picture of what Hawaiian botanical gifting looks like. Our resource on fresh Hawaiian ginger for tea blends is a good companion for anyone interested in building a more complete tea ritual from Hawaiian ingredients.
Perfect for: health-conscious recipients, tea lovers, anyone avoiding caffeine, people curious about indigenous Hawaiian culture, and anyone who wants to give something genuinely unusual that starts a real conversation.
Rum Cakes, Dessert Sauces, and the Edible Side of the Farm
Not every person who wants a Hawaii farm-to-table gift is a coffee drinker, and not every occasion calls for a bag of coffee or a box of tea. That is where our edible gifts come in, and they tend to be the ones that surprise people most pleasantly.
Our rum cakes are made using Buddha's Cup coffee, which means the same beans that go through our full growing and processing cycle end up expressed in baked form. The result is a cake that is rich, moist, and distinctly coffee-forward without being bitter. The rum adds warmth and depth without overwhelming the coffee character. These cakes are shelf-stable, which makes them ideal for shipping to the mainland or carrying in luggage without worry. They arrive looking and tasting like something that came from a place, because they did.
The appeal of a rum cake from a coffee farm is partly about the product and partly about the story. When you hand someone a Buddha's Cup rum cake, you can tell them that the coffee in that cake was grown on a slope in Holualoa, hand-picked at peak ripeness, processed on the farm, and then baked into a cake that traveled to them directly from the people who grew the main ingredient. That is a gift narrative that no grocery store baked good can compete with.
Our Kona coffee dessert sauce extends the farm's coffee into another format entirely. It is a concentrated, versatile sauce that works over ice cream, stirred into yogurt, drizzled over pancakes, or used as a glaze for savory applications like grilled pork or duck. Our guide on how to make a Kona coffee dessert sauce explains the process in detail and gives the recipient ideas for how to use it once they have it in their kitchen. For the food-curious recipient, this kind of gift that comes with instructions and ideas is especially appreciated.
If you want to explore further how coffee can be used throughout the kitchen and even the bar, our resources on using Kona coffee in desserts will give you and your gift recipient plenty of inspiration.
Perfect for: foodies and home cooks, holiday gift exchanges, thank-you gifts for teachers and coworkers, hostess gifts, office party contributions, and anyone who already has everything but would never turn down something genuinely delicious from Hawaii.
The Farm Tour Experience as the Ultimate Farm to Table Gift
Why an Experience Gift Outperforms a Product Gift Every Time
There is a growing body of research on what people actually value in gifts over time. The consistent finding is that experiences generate longer-lasting positive memories than objects. A product sits on a shelf. An experience becomes a story that gets told at dinner parties, referenced in conversation for years, and revisited in memory every time something triggers the association. For Hawaii, that trigger comes up constantly: every cup of coffee, every time a news story mentions the islands, every time someone asks where you have traveled.
A Hawaii farm tour carries a specific emotional weight that few gifts can match. You are placing someone on volcanic soil that took thousands of years to form. You are surrounding them with plants that exist nowhere else on earth. You are introducing them to the people whose hands grew what they will be drinking or eating for months afterward. That layering of place, person, and product creates a memory that is genuinely difficult to replicate through any other kind of gift.
The Hawaii farm-to-table movement has increasingly recognized this. Visitors to the islands are no longer satisfied with eating a plate of food and moving on. They want to know where the food came from. They want to meet the farmer. They want to understand the connection between the landscape they are standing in and the flavor they are experiencing. This desire to know the source is what drives the popularity of farm tours, and it is exactly why a gift of that experience resonates so deeply.
For couples in particular, a farm tour as a gift creates a shared memory with a distinctive texture. Our page on a Kona tasting trip for couples captures what that experience looks and feels like, and it makes a compelling case for why this is one of the most memorable things two people can do together on the Big Island.
Buddha's Cup Tour Options, Choosing the Right Experience for Your Gift Recipient
Not every person who would love a farm tour experience wants the same version of it. Some guests want a relaxed, unhurried overview. Some want deep sensory engagement with the coffee. Some want the story told by someone who has lived it for years. Some want to get on a vehicle and traverse land that most visitors never see. We offer options that serve all of these personalities, and understanding which one fits your recipient is part of giving the gift well.
Our Free Farm Tour is the accessible entry point, and "free" does not mean lightweight. Guests walk through the farm, see the coffee trees and mamaki plants in context, learn the basics of how coffee is grown and processed, and get a genuine sense of what it means to operate a working farm in this landscape. For someone who has never visited a coffee farm before, this tour alone can be transformative. It reframes every cup of coffee they will ever drink.
The Deluxe Tasting goes deeper into the sensory experience. Guests cup multiple coffees, compare roast profiles side by side, and learn to identify the flavor characteristics that distinguish good Kona coffee from great Kona coffee. This is the experience for the coffee drinker who wants to understand what they are tasting, not just enjoy it. It is an educational gift that keeps giving, because every cup the recipient makes at home afterward benefits from what they learned during the tasting.
Manny's Walking Tour offers something that the other experiences cannot: personal storytelling from someone who has worked this land and knows its history, its rhythms, and its quirks in intimate detail. This is the tour for the curious guest who wants the whole story, not just the highlights. For someone who is interested in agriculture, in Hawaiian history, or in the human story behind the product, this is the most complete version of what a farm visit can offer.
Our VIP ATV Tour is the adventure option, and it is exactly what it sounds like. Guests traverse the farm on terrain that cannot be accessed on foot, seeing areas of the property that are hidden from the standard tour. This is perfect for the active couple, the adventure-oriented traveler, or the small group that wants a more physical and exciting version of the farm experience. The views from the upper reaches of the farm are extraordinary, and the experience of covering that terrain on a vehicle adds a dimension of excitement that makes it unforgettable.
All of these experiences can be booked as gifts. Gift cards work for any of the tour options and allow your recipient to choose the experience that fits their interests and schedule when they visit. Our full overview of what happens during a Kona coffee farm tour gives a detailed picture of what to expect from start to finish.
Group and Corporate Farm-to-Table Gifting Through the Tour Experience
Individual gifts are one thing. But some of the most impactful gifting happens at scale: the corporate team that needs a memorable activity during a retreat on the Big Island, the family reunion looking for something everyone can participate in, the incentive travel group that wants an experience that feels distinctly Hawaiian rather than generically tropical.
A Kona coffee farm tour at Buddha's Cup checks every box for corporate groups. It is educational without being lecture-heavy. It engages people with their senses, not just their minds. It is specific to this place and impossible to replicate elsewhere. And it creates a shared reference point that colleagues carry back into the workplace with them. We have hosted groups whose members still talk about the farm visit years later, often when someone brings a bag of Kona coffee into the office breakroom and everyone remembers where they first tasted it.
Multi-generational family groups find that our farm tours work across age ranges in ways that many activities do not. Younger visitors are engaged by the physical environment, the plants, the insects, the machinery. Adults appreciate the depth of the educational content and the quality of the coffee. Older guests often find the pace comfortable and the storytelling absorbing. Everyone gets something meaningful from the experience, which is rare for a group activity.
For large groups, we offer customization options that allow us to tailor the experience to the specific interests and priorities of the group. If your team is particularly interested in sustainability practices, we can emphasize that part of the farm's story. If your family group includes children who need an accessible explanation of how coffee grows, we can shape the narrative accordingly. Our resource on group coffee tastings in Kona goes into more detail on how we approach these larger experiences and what makes them work.
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Reading Labels, The Vocabulary That Separates Real from Fake
Navigating the Hawaii food gift marketplace requires some vocabulary. The same product can be presented in dozens of ways, and the differences in labeling represent enormous differences in what you are actually buying.
"100% Kona Coffee" is the benchmark label for authentic estate-grown coffee from the Kona region. It means every bean in the bag was grown in the Kona Coffee Belt. There is no blending, no filler coffee from other regions, no ambiguity. If the label says anything other than "100% Kona Coffee," including "Kona Style," "Kona Blend," or "Kona Flavored," you are looking at a product that may contain as little as ten percent genuine Kona beans. The other ninety percent could come from anywhere on earth.
"Estate Grown" is a term that tells you the coffee came from a single farm rather than being purchased from multiple farms and blended. This is relevant because it means the flavor profile you taste is consistent with a specific piece of land, specific growing practices, and a specific farmer's decisions about when to pick, how to process, and when to roast. Estate-grown coffee is more traceable and more distinctive than blended coffee, even blended 100% Kona.