www.ahualoa.net

Some Ahualoa people with an online presence:

Richard Spiegel's Volcano Island Honey Company is based here, producing the best-tasting honey in the world. Peter and Judy Rosenstern are owners of the Star of Roses Organic Farm which produces a variety of herbal products.

Anusara yoga teachers Jim and Ruthie Bernaert teach classes both in Waimea and in their Ahualoa home. The Hawaii Island Goat Dairy is here, making delicious natural chevre and feta varieties of goat cheese. You can also read an article about them, the Hog Farm, and other folks doing diversified agriculture here.

The Ahualoa Hog Farm is a small family farm offering fresh island pork from hogs raised the old fashioned, low stress, "natural" homestead style. The Ahualoa Egg Farm produces fresh, local, free-range organically-fed eggs.

Barefoot Farms is owned by Stephen and Kimber-Lee Erb. Besides making "Big Jerky" beef jerky, they raise gamefowl chickens, goats, sheep, racing pigeons and their own macnuts. Christopher Jaeckle is an artist from Ahualoa. He has a site with a lot of his art, www.chrisjaeckle.com.

Wendell and Netta Branco's Long Ears Coffee Company is here producing gourmet coffee. Kona coffee might be more famous, but Hamakua grew coffee first, and it's just as good. Loren Everly is from Ahualoa. He has lots of pictures of Hawai'i and other interesting travels and obsessions on his personal website.

Eric and Hillery Gunther's Hawaiian Cloud Forest Coffee which is organically grown, single-estate, involved in enriching habitat for endangered Nene and Koloa, using ponds and Koa trees around their coffee plantation. Ahualoa resident Ben Discoe runs the Virtual Terrain Project, an open-source software for terrain visualization. His personal site is washed ashore. He's also the webmaster for this site (ahualoa.net).

Takahiro Ino's Mauna Kea Tea is here, producing fine green tea. Taka approaches this by energizing the soil life while maintaining the highest quality, relying solely on in-farm organic matter, in harmony with nature. Origami teacher Deb Pun Discoe lives here. She has a separate site for her Origami Teaching.

Rita and Robert Holden of Holden & Holden Designs work and live here, woodcarving with sculptural and classical design using Hawaiian hardwoods to achieve a kaleidoscope of colors.

Unless you're coming here for a personal visit, there are several places to stay, including the mid-priced Log Cabin, Skandia Cottage, Mountain Meadow Ranch, Ahualoa Country Cottage, and the luxurious Waianuhea ($$$).

Nearby towns

The closest town are Honokaa (6 miles northeast, downhill) and Waimea (13 miles west).
Here is an assortment of links to Honokaa sites:

Nutrient Niche is the local Health Food store, a great little place to stop in.
Hotel Honokaa Club is a charming old building, a nice place to stay.
Melvin Ah Ching's Honoka‘a Online & Photos Website is nice, but the server is unreliable.

	Richard Spiegel's Volcano Island Honey Company is based here, producing the best-tasting honey in the world.			Peter and Judy Rosenstern are owners of the Star of Roses Organic Farm which produces a variety of herbal products.
	Anusara yoga teachers Jim and Ruthie Bernaert teach classes both in Waimea and in their Ahualoa home.			The Hawaii Island Goat Dairy is here, making delicious natural chevre and feta varieties of goat cheese. You can also read an article about them, the Hog Farm, and other folks doing diversified agriculture here.
	The Ahualoa Hog Farm is a small family farm offering fresh island pork from hogs raised the old fashioned, low stress, "natural" homestead style.			The Ahualoa Egg Farm produces fresh, local, free-range organically-fed eggs.
	Barefoot Farms is owned by Stephen and Kimber-Lee Erb. Besides making "Big Jerky" beef jerky, they raise gamefowl chickens, goats, sheep, racing pigeons and their own macnuts.			Christopher Jaeckle is an artist from Ahualoa. He has a site with a lot of his art, www.chrisjaeckle.com.
	Wendell and Netta Branco's Long Ears Coffee Company is here producing gourmet coffee. Kona coffee might be more famous, but Hamakua grew coffee first, and it's just as good.			Loren Everly is from Ahualoa. He has lots of pictures of Hawai'i and other interesting travels and obsessions on his personal website.
	Eric and Hillery Gunther's Hawaiian Cloud Forest Coffee which is organically grown, single-estate, involved in enriching habitat for endangered Nene and Koloa, using ponds and Koa trees around their coffee plantation.			Ahualoa resident Ben Discoe runs the Virtual Terrain Project, an open-source software for terrain visualization. His personal site is washed ashore. He's also the webmaster for this site (ahualoa.net).
	Takahiro Ino's Mauna Kea Tea is here, producing fine green tea. Taka approaches this by energizing the soil life while maintaining the highest quality, relying solely on in-farm organic matter, in harmony with nature.			Origami teacher Deb Pun Discoe lives here. She has a separate site for her Origami Teaching.
	Rita and Robert Holden of Holden & Holden Designs work and live here, woodcarving with sculptural and classical design using Hawaiian hardwoods to achieve a kaleidoscope of colors.
	Unless you're coming here for a personal visit, there are several places to stay, including the mid-priced Log Cabin, Skandia Cottage, Mountain Meadow Ranch, Ahualoa Country Cottage, and the luxurious Waianuhea ($$$).