Founded in 1998, Twin Bridge Farms is a 250-acre operation in Waialua that produces fresh asparagus, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and much more all year round.

Co-Founder Milton Agader

Twin Bridge Farms is part of a group of farmers who took over the land after Waialua Sugar shut down in the mid-1990s. The company is one of many that have turned to diversified agriculture on the North Shore. Asparagus is a relatively low maintenance crop and has few problems with disease or pests. As a specialty crop, it is in high demand by local restaurants and gourmet shops.

Harvesting the Fields

What they grow

• Asparagus
• Sweet Potatoes
• Russet Potatoes
• Ewa Onions
• Bell Peppers
• Tomatoes

Maui Gold Pineapple Company was created by former Maui Pineapple Company employees who were committed to saving the 100 year tradition of pineapple on Maui.

Harvesting Pineapples

Maui Gold pineapple is grown across 1,350 acres on the slopes of Haleakala on the island of Maui. Maui Gold Pineapple Company’s main farming operation, together with its packing facility and administrative offices, is located in Hali‘imaile at an elevation of 1,100 feet.

Taste testing pineapples in the field!

Maui Gold pineapple is famous for its extra sweet flavor and low acidity. These characteristics were developed over several years by traditional horticulturalists who crossed hundreds of natural pineapple varieties in the search for the best tasting fruit.  For more information, check out their website!

What they Grow

• Pineapples

 

Pacific Gateway Center, a non-profit supporting Asian immigrants in Hawaii, lease 60 acres of ag land to 12 Thai families (5 acres each) in Kunia.

Farming in Hawaii since early 2012, they are now producing fresh produce – cucumbers, varieties of tomatoes, squash, and beans, eggplant, okra, Thai chili peppers, avocado, bananas as well as eggs from free-range chickens!

 

Farm Website

What they grow

• Japanese Cucumbers
• Filipino Long Eggplant
• Long Beans
• Kale
• Mint
• Grape Tomatoes
• Avocados
• Bananas
• Bitter Melon
• Long Squash
• Okra

 

 

 

 

To make really good mushrooms, you need to have really good material to grow the mushrooms in.  So before there was Small Kine Mushrooms, there was a green-recycling company collecting organic material called O‘ahu Community Recycling (OCR).

OCR started its operation making fine compost, which happens to be perfect for growing mushrooms! When the owner of OCR, Fung Yang, realized that there was potential to mimic nature and create something useful with the organic green waste he was collecting from private homes and businesses around the island, Small Kine Farm was born.

 

Farm Website

What they Grow

• Portabella Mushrooms
• Crimini Mushrooms