Farms Near Paauilo, HI

Paauilo

Hawaii Beef Producers has run a USDA-inspected processing plant in Paauilo, on the Big Island, since 2003, slaughtering and packing beef under the Hawaii Big Island Beef label. The operation supplies grass-fed, island-raised beef to grocers and restaurants across Hawaii, keeping local beef on shelves that would otherwise come in frozen from the mainland.

Paauilo

Paauilo

Hāmākua Meat Processors is situated on the Hāmākua Coast, on the island of Hawaiʻi. This region is known for its lush pastureland, perfect for raising livestock. Owner/General Manager Brad DeLuz sources cattle for Farm Link from several Big Island ranchers. These cattle are born locally and pasture-raised in Hawai'i. They are 100% grass-fed and grass-finished. Each animal is individually selected to ensure it is of the highest quality. After initial processing by Hāmākua Meat Processors, the bee

Paauilo

Paauilo

Hawaiian Vanilla Company became the first commercial vanilla farm in the country when it launched in 1998, growing its crop in a Hamakua Coast rainforest near Paauilo. The family-owned operation runs farm tours alongside a restaurant, gift shop, and gallery, with a Vanilla Experience Luncheon most Wednesdays through Fridays pairing a farm walkthrough with a meal built around house-grown vanilla. The bread pudding and vanilla ice cream draw return visitors as much as the crop itself.

Honokaa

Big Island Farms in Honokaa is an educational farm whose gardens hold over 200 species of edible and medicinal plants — coffee, banana, papaya, cassava, taro, ginger, turmeric, cacao, avocado, breadfruit, and more. Privately guided farm tours include fresh fruit tastings, with medicinal workshops, immersive programs, and seasonal macadamia nuts for sale.

Honokaa

Honokaa

We believe the best way to support Hawaiʻi is to eat locally, so we've made it our mission to make local meat more accessible to residents all across the state. Kaunamano Farm raises world-renowned Royal Berkshire hogs on the Big Island of Hawai`i using sustainable practices. In addition to our own farm, we partner with other farms all over Hawaiʻi to bring HI-quality, local meat directly to your door through our statewide, farm-to-table delivery service (this website).

Honokaa

Laupahoehoe

Laupahoehoe

Nakihalani Farm in Laupahoehoe on the Big Island grows mamaki — Hawai'i's endemic antioxidant-rich, caffeine-free herbal tea — alongside lilikoi specialties, tropical fruit syrups and jams, herbs, and award-winning honey. The peaceful organic farm also welcomes visitors for farm tours.

Ninole

Hamakua Christmas Tree Forest grows choose-and-cut Portuguese and Arizona cypress on open-air fields along the Hamakua Coast, started in 2015 by Rich and Nancy Bradwell. Reservations run July through December, with a $20 Forest Family Ticket credited toward whichever tree you pick and cut yourself; potted trees and delivery are also available.

Leo Nani Farms works 8.64 acres on the Hamakua Coast, where a food forest of coffee and jackfruit grows alongside a tea orchard of 200 mature plants and a 100-tree cacao orchard that anchors farm sales. Co-owners Rhiannon, a singer and teacher, Jan Watson, an art photographer, and Floyd Bucklin, a builder, run the farm on the premise that growing food and growing art belong together, hosting WWOOF volunteers and community arts events.

Hakalau

Kulike Farm in Hakalau on the Big Island's Hamakua Coast makes two-ingredient Hakalau Chocolate — organic cacao sweetened only with honey, no sugar — grown on an off-grid permaculture farm and shipped as a pure, guilt-free treat.

Honomu

Mauna Kai Orchards is a family-owned farm in Honomu on the Big Island specializing in local Hawaiian Kaimana lychee, cacao, and mangosteen. Fresh, hand-picked lychee is available for online purchase with shipping to most Hawaiian islands.

Honomu

Bodhi is a veteran of the United States Navy where he served as Combat Medic for the Marine Corps and went on to become a Commissioned Medical Officer. By day, Bodhi is a farmer but by night he is a physician assistant and medical director for a team of medical providers who work virtually all across the US. Sixth generation kama'aina, he follows his great-grandfather's legacy farming on the Hamakua Coast. Bodhi’s interest in eating locally sourced food came from reading Micheal Pollan’s The Omn

Honomu

Kaye Family Farm grows lychee on 28 acres near Akaka Falls on the Hamakua Coast, land that was once a sugar plantation and later an organic ginger operation. Its 120 lychee trees produce about 5,000 pounds of fruit each May, sold as Kaimana Lychee and shipped only within Hawaii; pick-your-own visits run by appointment, with roughly 50 other tropical fruit varieties also grown on-site.

Kamuela

L & E Farms operates out of Kamuela in Hawaii Island's cool upcountry Waimea district, an area known for cattle ranching and small diversified growers at elevation. No independently verifiable details about crops or operations turned up online.

Waimea Town Market sets up on the Parker School campus at 65-1224 Lindsey Road in Kamuela every Saturday, with vendors selling as early as 7:30am and the market running to noon. More than 50 vendors bring produce, macadamia nuts, meats, cheeses, baked goods, soaps, and ceramics, with rules requiring goods to be grown, made, or prepared in Hawaii, preferably on the Big Island.

Rare Hawaiian Honey Company has produced organic Kiawe honey since 1990, sourced from a single 1,000-acre kiawe forest on the dry side of Hawaii Island — the reason the company calls its white honey the world's rarest gourmet variety. The visitor center at 71-1580 Hawaii Belt Rd in Kailua-Kona runs free honey tastings and bee safari tours, Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm. Call 808-775-1000 or toll-free at 888-663-6639.

Waimea

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

Waimea

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

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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.

Waimea

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

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

Papaikou

Hamakua Liquid Gold harvests raw, organic honey from hives kept along the Hamakua Coast between Hilo and Waipiʻo Valley, a stretch locals call the "Breath of God." The honey is sold unfiltered and untreated, straight off the extractor.

Papaikou

Hamakua Chocolate Farm is a six-acre cacao operation in Papaikou built out by owners Dan and Berndt into something closer to a botanical garden, complete with a suspension bridge and treehouse. The $99 guided tour runs three hours on Wednesdays and Saturdays by advance booking, covering harvest, fermentation, and drying before a full chocolate tasting.

Papaikou

Hāmākua Chocolate Farm grows cacao on the rain-blessed Hamakua Coast near Hilo — Hawai'i being the only US state where the chocolate tree grows. Visitors take cacao farm tours with chocolate tastings, sample the sweet floral cacao fruit straight from the tree, get hands-on making chocolate, or book a full farm stay surrounded by the trees along the year-round Aleamai Stream.

Hilo

Hilo Farmers Market Kitchen rents commercial kitchen space next to the Hilo Farmers Market at 57 Mamo St, starting at $9 an hour for food producers who need a licensed space to cook, bake, or process. The kitchen also runs its own counter serving burgers, poke, and plate lunches to market-goers.

Starseed Ranch runs entirely off-grid on 26 acres along the northern coast of Hawaii Island, powered by hydroelectric and solar systems with rainwater harvested for irrigation. Guests stay in Balinese-style hales built from bamboo and ohia wood, or in platform canvas tents, and can book farm tours, farm-to-fork lunches, and farm-to-table dinners. A yoga studio and open-air Balinese bathhouse anchor the property. Find the ranch at 52-4700 Akoni Pule Hwy, Kapaau.

The Hawai'i Institute of Pacific Agriculture runs an educational farm in Kapaau, in Hawaii Island's North Kohala district, where staff cultivate native Hawaiian and Polynesian plants, tropical fruit orchards, and market garden crops. The nonprofit teaches regenerative farming through a beginner farmer training program for ages 18-28, K-12 farm-to-school classes, and community workshops. Produce from the market garden supplies the Kohala Food Hub CSA and local farmers markets.

Ke Ola Farm is a small Hawaii Island producer listed among the growers supplying the Hawai'i Farm-to-Car online market that serves the Hilo area. Beyond that listing, little further detail about what the farm grows or where exactly it operates is publicly available online.

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Hawi

Kohala Grown Market is a local food market and deli on Akoni Pule Highway in Hawi, on the Big Island's North Kohala coast, open seven days a week with locally grown food and fresh deli fare.

Hilo

O.K. Farms covers nearly 1,000 acres along Hilo's historic Wailuku River, with its own private overlook of Rainbow Falls just five minutes from downtown. The family-run farm grows tropical fruit, coffee, macadamia nuts, spices, and cacao, offers farm tours, and supports fellow Big Island farmers through weekly CSA boxes distributed in Hilo.

Hilo

Pinner Creek Farms (formerly Pinner Creek Organics) is a small family farm near Hilo with over 40 years of cultivation experience, growing world-class Hawaiian white blue-ring ginger, true Hawaiian red turmeric, black turmeric, and edible Lehua Maoli taro. Roots are flown priority overnight from field to front door within 72 hours of harvest, along with powders, tinctures, and seeds.

Ho'ōla Farms is a Hilo-based nonprofit, legally Ho'ōla Veteran Services, that Emily Emmons founded in 2015 to strengthen Hawaii Island's food system. The organization farms a small market garden of organic vegetables and herbs near Hilo and runs the Hawai'i Farm to Car online market alongside the Hilo Food Hub, a shared commercial kitchen. Its Victory Gardens for Veterans program teaches military veterans and their families to grow food at home.

Hilo

Hilo