The Flavor Farm · Hāmākua Coast, Hawaiʻi

Freshly gathered produce laid out on a table

What We Grow, We Eat

Breakfast on a farmhouse table

Before breakfast

Gathered At Six

Guests who are up early walk out with baskets. Eggs, fruit, herbs, greens. It is on the table by eight, and nobody has to be told where it came from.

Vegetables just cut from the garden

Picked here

Short Distance Cooking

Menus follow the beds rather than the other way round. What is ready, in quantity, that week, decides dinner.

A long table set for a shared dinner

Work to table

Everyone Eats Better After A Day Outside

One long table, food in the middle, the day's work still on everyone's hands. It is the part of the week most groups talk about afterwards.

Ripening coffee cherries on the branch
Preserved goods in glass jars on a shelf

What comes home

From The Farm, Between Visits

The keeping things — dried, roasted, preserved — go home with members and arrive again later in the year. Members manage that selection through their membership.

A note

The Kitchen Is Part Of The Work

Cooking, preserving and putting food up are as much a part of a week here as planting is. You are welcome in all of it, or none of it.