Aloha 2011

Day ten- Today is another farmer’s market day. We also found a new shave ice shop. SF’s favorite shop went out of business a few days ago and this one will take it’s place for now. Not the best location so I suspect it will be out of business next time we come. Too bad. They have a clever idea for their little shop. In addition to shave ice and smoothies, they sell frozen yogurt by the ounce. You get your yogurt cup and fill it with whatever yogurt and toppings you want in whatever amounts you want. Then they weigh it and tell you how much to pay. They even have a soft-serve sorbet. Hope they make it until we come back.

We connected with an acquaintance from Etna, CA who now lives in Kona and made plans to have dinner with her at Huggo’s tonight. Then we got a call from an organic vegetable farmer (thanks for your help on that DD) who said that this afternoon would be a good time to come check out his farm. So off we went to Waimea. Again.

The farm was interesting and we had a good visit there. He grows several kinds of lettuce, cabbage and broccoli. His is not one of the farms that serve the restaurant community. He sells to Whole Foods and a couple of other big buyers. 

We talked about his challenges, his organic strategies, his propagation techniques, his family, politics, etc, etc. Then he sent us off with some of his lettuce and broccoli. Yum!

Here is a picture of one of his lettuce fields, with a crew doing some weeding

We got back to town just in time to change our clothes and meet our friend for dinner. We had a really nice visit, plus good food and service. And we had a nice table by the water where we watched another great sunset.