An estate takes root
The Hōlualoa farm was established under its former operator, Monarch Coffee, on Hualālai’s western slope.
Our story · The Dickinson family
This is that story,
still being written.
A family, an award-winning estate, and a decision to protect what could too easily disappear.
Tyler & Diandra Dickinson
They knew how to build. The farm asked them to grow.
Tyler and Diandra built their life on Hawaiʻi Island through construction, real estate, building businesses, and raising their daughters, Olivia and Peyton. Their experience taught them to see potential, understand hard work, and commit to things meant to last.
Taking responsibility for this estate extended that commitment into the soil. The farm arrived with history, rare trees, and a standard established over more than a decade of harvests. Stewardship meant learning what the land already knew—and earning the right to carry it forward.
A decade in the making; a lifetime still to go.
A family undertaking
The next chapter begins close to home.
1600 Coffee Company is a long-term commitment to Hawaiʻi Island—and a place the Dickinson family can grow alongside. The daughters’ hands are already part of the harvest story, just as the family’s future is part of the farm’s.
The goal is not to erase what came before. It is to know it, honor it, and build deliberately from it.
Why the farm
Responsibility before opportunity.
This was already an award-winning estate. Taking it on was not about starting with a blank page; it was about respecting years of work, preserving agricultural use of the land, and committing to the patience rare coffee demands.
The former Monarch operation’s achievements belong to that chapter. The Dickinsons’ responsibility is to acknowledge them clearly while building a record of their own.
When a small farm disappears, more than acreage is lost.
Across Hawaiʻi, small farms face pressure to be bought, subdivided, rushed, overprocessed, or replaced by uses that offer a faster return. Each change can sever another connection between the island, its agricultural history, and the people who care for it.
1600 Coffee Company is a choice in the other direction: keep agricultural land intact, make quality worth waiting for, and build a farm the next generation can inherit with pride.
The estate record
Deep roots. A new name.
The first plantings
Coffee planting began in December, beginning the long work of shaping an orchard at elevation.
Statewide recognition
Coffee from the former Monarch operation earned first and third place statewide in Hawaiʻi Coffee Association competition.
A new stewardship
Tyler and Diandra Dickinson begin the farm’s next chapter as 1600 Coffee Company—on the same land, with a long view.
A history rooted here
Gesha’s Hawaiian story touches this land.
The person who first brought Gesha to the Hawaiian Islands began growing it on this property. That connection gives the farm’s work a deeper context—and a responsibility to tell only what is known, with care.
Today, Gesha grows here alongside Pacamara as part of an established orchard whose next record is only beginning.
Elsewhere on Hawaiʻi Island
The farm is another expression of their life’s work.
Long before 1600 Coffee Company, Tyler and Diandra built careers around place, craft, and lasting relationships on Hawaiʻi Island.
Continue the story
The land is where every chapter begins.
Explore the estate, its topography, its living canopy, and the long-term approach guiding what comes next.