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Sampling Tropical Fruits at Ono Farm on Maui

Posted by: Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Maui
Apr 02, 2009

Tray of sliced dragonfruit at Ono Organic Farms in East MauiThirty-five years ago, Chuck and Lili Boerner left Honolulu for remote Kipahulu on East Maui to start a family-run, organic farm at a time when most farmers were selling their land to corporations and moving to town.

“It’s actually staggering for us to even comprehend. I hardly remember doing it. You just do it because you love it,” said Lili one Thursday afternoon under overcast skies as she passed around wicker plates lined with banana leaves to a group gathered on her lanai for her weekly farm tour and fruit tasting.

“I’m using banana leaves. It’s a new project,” she said. “I don’t want to buy paper plates anymore. We just got back from India, where they use newspaper.

An Organic Farm in Hawaii

“When my husband graduated from college, he traveled around the world for seven years. He had a degree in engineering, but he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life. After seeing the rest of the world, he realized that if you owned a piece of land and had a farm, you were a rich person. When he came home to Oahu and told his parents he wanted to be a farmer, they were not happy. They had big Honolulu plans for him.

“My husband is fabulous dreamer. I just let him dream and create things. I like the tours and my garden, and I run the office.

“We’re going to start with a low-acid pineapple,” Lili says, as she slices the skin off the fruit. “Low-acid doesn’t have that bite to it.” She stands at a table piled high with colorful fruits.  more> 

Posted in: Food & Drink, Farmers Markets
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