Five Years in the Making, this Small Vanilla Farm has Turned into a Family Operated Super Orchard Nestled inside the beautiful community of Laie, you can find the sweetest family-owned vanilla farm with even sweeter products. Saili Levi runs the company out of his...
Celebrating Hawai‘i’s Heirloom Sugarcane with Craft Agricole Rum In Hawaiian, the word Kō’ means sugarcane and the word Hana means to work. Together, Kō Hana means work the sugar cane and is now the name of one of Hawai‘i’s finest Rum companies. Started together by...
Going Back to Our Roots at Ka‘ala Farm Ka‘ala Farm offers a serene and safe place for many of the community members to visit and reconnect with the ancestors of Wai‘anae. Reaching back to the early 1970’s, a group of youths stumbled upon rock terraces and discovered...
Food Waste to Healthy Taste Sharp, pungent, and zesty aren’t usually words you would use to describe something you flavor your food with. However, if we were talking about vinegar then that’s exactly what you want to hear. Hawaiian Vinegar Company produces some of...
Generations of Local Tofu-Making Aloha Tofu is the largest O‘ahu based tofu company, but it didn’t start out that way. The family business was founded in 1950 by Kamesaburo and Tsuruko Uyehara and is now run by its fourth-generation owner, Paul Uyehara and his wife....
A Farm to Cup Business That’s More Than Just Coffee Beans The smell of freshly brewed coffee greets visitors as they step into Honolulu Coffee Company. Established in 1992 out of a small kiosk in downtown Honolulu, the company’s goal was to bring the social...
