Maui (O'o Farms)

O'o Farms:
"A truly unique island experience begins at O’o Farm in Upcountry Maui.  Our 8.5 acre diversified natural farm is owned and operated by the Pacific’O and I’O restaurants at 505 Front Street in Lahaina."

I knew the two above restaurants were good (REALLY good in fact) but I had no idea they were this fresh!!! Not only is the fish they get straight from the local fishermen, sometimes within an hour, but O'o farms supplies much of the fresh veggies. It is a biodynamic farm (Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms). This is NOT a farm that the restaurants work with. This is a farm owned by the restaurants and they grow what the chefs request at the quantities they need. So, they are constantly trying new crops (failing sometimes because they try and grow anything regardless of climate needs) and sometimes come up with some neat creations (see lemon above).

We toured the facility and their on-site chef cooked us a super tasty lunch of seared Ono and fresh veggies. A really cool experience that I would not have been able to have if not for my ultra environmental wife. I looked for an "in-and-out" farm but sadly one does not exist.

Our guide showing us their new coffee trees. We ate some of the coffee berries. I didn't know they were berries.

This was the shipment to be used at the restaurants that night. Pretty neat!!!

Here is the salad we picked

Joo enjoying the meal she picked

Great meal with some wine we picked fresh from the grocery store.