Farmers Archive - Page 9 of 10

Pacific Gateway Center

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

Mari’s Garden

Located in Mililani in Central Oahu, Mari’s Garden is the largest aquaponic operation in the State! On only one acre of land they are able to produce green oak leaf, red oak leaf, green onions, Japanese cucumbers, beets, and much more.

Growing aquaponically is soil less method of combine aquaculture growing produce. Fish waste is used as the nutrients for the plants while the plants are cleaning the water which can then be returned to the fish tanks creating a closed-loop system.

Farm Website

What they Grow

Lettuce
Green Onions
Japanese Cucumbers
Beets
Tilapia
Catfish

Small Kine Farm

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

Nalo Farms

If you eat at fine restaurants on Oahu, chances are you’ll see the term “Nalo Greens” on a menu. The ubiquitous salad mix comes from Dean Okimoto’s Nalo Farms in Waimanalo, on eastern Oahu. The small operation sits at the base of the Ko’olau Mountains, which tower majestically over the neat, multihued rows of vegetables. The farm is Hawaii’s premier grower of salad greens, along with delicate microgreens, herbs & esoteric produce such as Okinawan spinach.

The farm also offers tours where you walk with the farmers through the fields to see first hand the variety of greens being grown and how you can use them in your cooking.

Farm Website

What they grow

Nalo Greens
Arugula
Mint
Basil
Oregano
Thyme

Kamaaina Land Nursery

Kamaaina Land Nursery is an organic fruit farm and plant nursery in Pupukea owned by Tina Jensen and her husband, the famous recycled, material artist Bernie Moriaz.