Farms in Kapaau, HI

Kapaau · Orchard

Touching The Earth Farm in Kapaau (North Kohala) is a regenerative tropical fruit tree farm focused on building healthy soil and communities. The farm crafts soil amendments from local Hawaiian ingredients — worm castings, fish scraps, and macadamia nuts — including its GrowFAAST line, which one local organic turmeric farmer credits with a 45% yield increase.

Kapaau · Organic Farm, Orchard

Island Harvest grows organic macadamia nuts in Kapaau on the Big Island, farming with care for the land, trees, employees, and community — no harmful pesticides, in support of regenerative agriculture. The nuts come sea-salted, unsalted, chocolate-covered, or with Hawaiian chili pepper, plus organic macadamia nut butter, with free US shipping over $40.

Kapaau · Produce Farm

Kapanaia Farms sits above Kapanaia Bay in North Kohala — the historic canoe landing of King Kamehameha I — growing fruits, vegetables, greens, and herbs picked at peak ripeness and delivered to market within hours. The farm uses companion planting, crop rotation, and homemade fertilizer teas brewed from comfrey and banana peels, never chemical pesticides; offerings run from Jimmy Nardello peppers to mango, apple banana, and dragon fruit via the Kohala Food Hub.

Kapaau

Kapaau

Hawi · Farmers Market

Waimea · Produce Farm, Farm Stand

Kekela Farms is a family-run vegetable farm in Waimea on the Big Island, established in 2002, growing more than 30 different vegetables in over 100 varieties on Mana Road. Though not certified organic, the farm uses OMRI-approved organic fertilizers and amendments; the on-farm market is open Tuesday afternoons 2–5 and Saturday mornings 8–noon.

Waimea

Waimea · Meat Farm

Mills was born in East Texas and originally studied performance art and opera at Centenary College of Louisiana, before deciding to focus on cooking. He attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and worked with many of the city’s great chefs, eventually working up to becoming a chef himself. In 1999, Mills moved to Hawai’i Island to focus more on farm and ranch work. He was the Executive Chef for Roaring Lion Ranch Hawai’i and Montana for 10 years until his first daughter Hali’a

Waimea

Waimea · Farmers Market

The Kuhio Hale Farmers Market is the Hawaiian Homesteads farmers market in Waimea on the Big Island, open Saturdays with an array of locally grown produce and other items made and grown on Hawai'i Island.

Waimea · Meat Farm, Livestock Ranch

Parker Ranch in Waimea on Hawai'i Island has ranched the slopes of Mauna Kea and the Kohala mountains for over 175 years — home of the paniolo, Hawai'i's cowboys, whose history intertwines with Hawaiian royalty. Parker Ranch 1847 beef is locally born, grass-fed, and finished on-island, sold in curated boxes, while visitors enjoy self-guided historic home tours, hunting packages, and the annual July 4th rodeo.

Waimea

Waimea · Livestock Ranch

In 2014, Ulupono Initiative partnered with Parker Ranch to create the Paniolo Cattle Company, a joint venture aimed at statewide local beef production. The pasture-to-plate enterprise taps into a growing demand for high-quality, affordable, locally raised beef. In 2022, Parker Ranch, Inc. acquired equity interest in Paniolo Cattle Company, making it a wholly owned entity of Parker Ranch.

Kamuela · Agritourism Farm

Honokaa · Meat Farm

Honokaa · Livestock Ranch