Hawaii (and the rest of the world) was a very different place back in the late ‘60’s – with air travel booming and surf culture gaining popularity, Hawaii was the place to be. Tourism replaced the sugar and pineapple industries as major revenue producers and...
In 1813 Don Francisco de Paula Marin, “Hawaii’s Original Farmer” planted the first coffee seedlings in Oahu. A distinguished horticulturist, he served King Kamehameha I as a personal physician, interpreter and accountant. Sadly, those first seedlings...