- Bamboo Village Hawaii - Did you know a sixty-foot tree cut for market takes 60 years to replace, but a sixty-foot bamboo cut for market takes as little as 59 days to replace? Bamboo Village, a non-profit corporation in agricultural Puna district, is pioneering a local, eco-friendly bamboo industry for Hawaii’s economic and ecological benefit.
- Fair Wind Boat Tour - Since 1971, Fair Wind has been the leader in snorkel cruises on the Big Island of Hawaii, operating two unique vessels with a wide range of award-winning cruises, and recommended by Frommer’s and West Hawaii residents as the best snorkel cruise on the island.
- Ginger Hill Farm and Retreat Center - Located in Kealekekua, Ginger Hill Farm & Retreat Center offers a variety of workshops including creativity and self-realization, permaculture principles and design methodology, medicinal cooking and cleansing, meditation, yoga and more! Owner Mayumi Oda is an artist and activist who enjoys demonstrating how one can truly live off of one’s land, and not the grocery store.
- Hawaiian Vanilla Company - Hawaii’s newest culinary wonder! Vanilla, derived from the pod of certain orchids, exemplifies Hawaii’s shift towards a diversified agricultural mix rather than large-scale plantations growing one cash crop, typically sugar.
- Kalapana Tropicals - A family owned certified orchid nursery since 1987, Kalapana Tropicals grows lovely, potted orchids for export. A beautiful site!
- Kokolulu Farm and Qigong Center - Located on the northern tip of The Big Island of Hawaii, Kokolulu Farm is an organic and permaculture designed farm amidst rolling green hills, vast ocean views, Maui vistas, the song of tropical birds, and trade winds blowing gently through the bamboo.
- La’akea Community - An off-grid intentional community in Puna, La’akea was founded in 2005 with a vision to steward the land and teach permaculture. In addition to maintaining permaculture gardens and orchards, the community works to conserve and restore the site’s forested areas.
- Lokahi Garden Sanctuary - Set on 10 pristine acres, Lokahi Garden Sanctuary is a holistic healing and wellness retreat center dedicated to serving our Ohana (human family) by offering programs and practices that encourage Lokahi (harmony and balance within and without) and providing opportunities to experience an intimate relationship with the Aina (earth).
- Pangaia - An ever-changing permaculture community founded in 1991, Pangaia is “a piece of land, a group of people, a common vision.” The community aims to collectively steward the fertile lands comprising Pangaia, home to groves of tropical fruit trees including durian, cacao, avocado, citrus, and mango (to name a few). Members tend to prefer a raw foods diet.
- Uluwehi Farm and Nursery - A small, family run, organic farm, Uluwehi is engaged in the development and dynamics of a medium scale permaculture site, using off-grid solar power, alternative construction, and diversified agriculture, including over 50 varieties of mangos and other tropical fruits.
- Volcano Island Honey Company (VIHC) - VIHC is a good example of value-added, sustainable, diversified, organic agriculture and employs community members in an economically depressed area of the Hamakua district on the Big Island to produce their products. VIHC is committed to managing business activities with integrity while creating and implementing employment procedures that encourage continuous personal growth and open, honest communication.
- Volcano Tea Studio - A carefully tended half-acre tea garden along the way to the summit of Kilauea, Volcano Tea Studio exemplifies Hawaii’s shift towards a diversified agricultural mix (rather than large-scale plantations growing one cash crop, typically sugar).
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