TARO TOURS AND TASTINGS
OUR UNIQUE TARO FARM EXPERIENCE
WITH PUPUS (TASTINGS)
Our Tours are Thursday's only
and start at 10:30am
Our maximum group size is 8 people
For larger groups or private tours please email us at: booking@auntielaulau.com
We are an active Taro Farm.
No children under 7 years are allowed on our tours.
Children, minors and teens under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Let's Meet ...
...at Fujikawa Farms in Hanalei ...
You will park your car at one the designated guest parking spaces. Please carpool to minimize the amount of vehicles. We will gather at our farm stand by the roadside off of Kuhio Hwy at 10:30 am. Our taro farm stand opens at 10:00 am.
From the farm stand ...
...we will take a short stroll to the taro fields on the 8 acre farm to our activity & taro tasting location.
Enjoy to step onto land that has been in agriculture for both rice and taro production for many centuries. You will experience the connection from the beautiful mountains of Hanalei that provide pristine waters to our lo’i (wetland) taro to the ocean that has shaped people’s lives in this stretch of unspoiled nature.
You can frequently see rare Hawaiian wetland and shore birds, sweet water crabs and diverse farm animals. Enjoy the ocean in close proximity, coastal forests and the lo’i taro fields. Once at the location, we will circle up and comfortably sit in the shade of the tent to talk story and check in about what we will be doing for the next hour and a half.
Activities will vary ...
... depending on weather conditions that day and the interest of the group. Topics include:
1) History of Hanalei & Cultural significance of taro
2) Nature observation & wildlife tracking
3) Plant education & Harvesting taro
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4) Poi pounding experience
5) Taro Tasting:
your choice of a savory taro dish, like a vegan taro bread spread with fresh taro bread and/or a sweet taro tasting dish, like taro granola, a taro & nut trail snack ...
... as well as poi (traditional taro paste)
AND
... get a free recipe!
6) Irrigation and Water distribution system
Throughout this experience ...
... we will invite you to enjoy a moment of silence to tune our senses to the beautiful aina (land)
Align your breath with the rhythms of nature and fine-tune your senses to the subtle information nature is always giving us.
At the end of our tour we will circle up again for a check-in/closing circle.
Please bring a hat, sun screen, water and, if you would like, a hiking stick. We will be walking about 1 mi. Please wear closed shoes. Fujikawa Farms is an active Taro Farm and we will be walking on uneven, and sometimes wet or even muddy, grounds.
PLEASE JOIN US EVERY THURSDAY FOR THIS UNIQUE KAUA'I EXPERIENCE!