Meet Our Farmers

Tom Menezes, a local farmer, chocolatier and cafe owner. He offers a range of cacao products, including 70 to 100 percent cacao bars with coconut and banana added, Lava Chocolate with Hawaiian chilies, reapers, and scorpions, and white chocolate with real cocoa butter mixed in matcha or ʻōlena.

Meet Stanley, a local landscaper, gardener, and ʻulu farmer and harvester from the Oʻokala, Hawaiʻi Island. He enjoys what he does; he thinks working is a privilege, not a chore, and he wants to leave his day feeling good about the interactions and positive impact he has made.

Andrew Trump and his brother Nathan grew up farming macadamia nuts in North Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island. As a macadamia nut farmer, Andrew enjoys growing trees and sees ʻulu as having the potential to provide food security to the islands.

Meet Clarence Medeiros of ‘Aina Ahiu Farm who recently hauled in a 50 pound kalo to our Honalo processing facility. After farming and ranching in Kona with his wife Nellie for over 50 years this is a new world record.

One Village Farm's motivation for farming is about serving & building community through sustainable food systems, sharing abundance and enhancing the environment.

Wilson Galdones was only a senior in high school when he leased his first 1/2 acre of farmland. Even back then he was planting mostly taro – Chinese & Araimo varieties.

Wally started Wong Way Farm in 2005 growing maia, kalo, ʻulu and kukui. Since then he has added a few citrus, avocado, mango and niu trees as well as chickens, ducks and goats. 

Kaivao Farm comprises 9.5 acres planned for agroforestry – a farming method sisters Angela and Kalisi learned growing up in Tonga. ‘Ulu is the primary crop.

Aileen Lubong and her family manage Sweet Treats and Eats on Hawaiʻi island, where they grow a variety of palaʻai (pumpkins/squash), tapioca (cassava), pipinola (chayote), dryland taro, long green squash, and a wide range of fruit trees.