Which is the only state in the US that commercially grows coffee?
Coffee production in Hawaii Coffee production in Hawaii One of only two states in the United States of America able to grow coffee plants commercially is Hawaii, the other being California. However, it is not the only coffee grown on U.S. soil; for example, Puerto Rico has had a coffee industry for some time, although it is not a state but a U.S. territory. Ramiro L. Colon worked in the coffee industry of Puerto Rico since 1925, for example. There are two other experimental coffee growing projects taking place in the United States in Santa Barbara, CA and in Georgia. Don Francisco de Paula
Shade-grown coffee Shade-grown coffee Shade-grown coffee is a form of the beverage produced from coffee plants grown under a canopy of trees. A canopy of assorted types of shade trees is created to cultivate shade-grown coffee. Because it incorporates principles of natural ecology to promote natural ecological relationships, shade-grown coffee can be considered an offshoot of agricultural permaculture or agroforestry. The resulting coffee is usually sold as "shade-grown". Coffee (especially "Coffea arabica") is a small tree or shrub that grows in the forest understory in its wild form, and traditionally was grown commercially under other trees that provided shade. Since the mid-1970s,