ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay is a good place to kick back after shopping at the farmers market at the King's Shops.

This market is different from other Hawai‘i Island farmers markets in that it is located on an outdoor promenade through a shopping complex. Located at the Waikoloa Beach Resort, the farmers market is nine months old and counts 12 to 15 vendors on any given Wednesday morning. The King’s Shops management provides the vendors with tents, tables, location, and facilities coordination in exchange for a monthly stall fee. Vendors hail from as far away as North Hilo and Hamakua on the windward side, and from North Kona, Waikoloa and Kohala on the leeward side.

Share your favorite breadfruit creations at the Cooking Contest.

A breadfruit Cooking Contest will rock taste buds on Saturday, September 24 during the morning hours of the Ho’oulu Ka ‘Ulu – Breadfruit Festival at the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook. Contest entrants are encouraged to submit an entry form with recipe(s) via e-mail or snail mail to the addresses provided on the forms, but entries will be accepted until 8:00 am on the morning of the festival. Judging will take place first thing in the morning on the day of the festival. Please be sure to visit the website and carefully read contest schedule, rules and regulations and what time to drop off your entry.

Jenny Bach of Bee Love Apiaries co-taught the class with Richard Spiegel of Volcano Island Honey Co.

The Beginning Organic Beekeeping class taught by Richard Spiegel and Jenny Bach started on Saturday, July 9, 2011, with a new crop of 17 people—all enthusiastic about learning to work with the bees. The class meets every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5 pm in July.

Class attendees are backyard gardeners and small farmers, most of whom are interested in keeping bees for pollination of trees and vegetables. Many people on Hawai‘i Island have reported noticing a decline in macadamia nut and fruit tree production that is attributed by horticulturists to  the loss of wild beehives. Wild hives have begun to decline as a result of the varroa mite bee parasite and other bee pathogens.

Dozens contributed to processing the produce, including these keiki who grated coconut for coconut milk.

Well…we did it! Planning for the first Community Harvest Hawaii was an exercise in trust. We were planning a large community food event where we didn’t know anything in advance. Important things such as how much food we would have to work with, what kind of food, and how many people were coming to eat, were all unknown! But in true Kohala community fashion everyone pitched in, we had a LOT of food and everyone got to eat and enjoy.