Best places to buy local fruit and veggies.

Does anyone know of great places to buy locally grown foods?

Best places to buy local fruit and veggies.

YES - go to the farmer markets, open air markets or the Maui Swap Meet.

From another travel site --

'; If you shop the farmer%26#39;s markets and specialty stores you will score big from a vast assortment of excellent organic produce and tropical fruits grown on the island. If you don%26#39;t, you may as well be visiting the desert in a third-world country and buy canned and frozen varieties of produce. Okay, in a pinch, Safeway does fine, but beware the $7 quarts of strawberries from Chile and $5/lb. local sweet onions.';

Here are some locations and days:

Wailuku: Market is set up daily across from the I`oa Theater

Honokowai: Market is set up daily just past the ABC store.

Regular hours are kept by the Farmer%26#39;s Market of Maui, a group of growers who set up in Honokawai in the parking lot across from the beach park on M/W/F mornings

Kihei: Farmer’s Market of Maui, just past Suda%26#39;s from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. M/W/F

Kahului: Saturday Swap Meet in Kahului (5:30 a.m. to Noon) has a variety of locally produced and fresh produce. Next door to post office, across from McDonald%26#39;s

Lahaina: Friday farmer%26#39;s market at the Queen Ka`ahumanu Mall.

If you see items provided for Ono Farms - they are a great, organic outfit from Kipahulu [non-GMO] side of the island. Great to support them because they have had a hard time lately with the road closure between Kipahulu and Kaupo; have to drive the Hana Hwy all the way around to get their produce to the other side markets. They are usually at the Swap Meet on Saturdays.

ONO Organic on Maui: Monday and Thursday in Hana just past the gas station

Upcountry: Visits to upcountry gardens and farms always offer an opportunity to take fresh grown products home after enjoying the outing and views.

Island-wide: A few retail establishments offer the more popular fruits and vegetables, Maui Onions, Pineapple, Papaya, Macadamia Nuts and other tropicals every day. Take Home Maui in Lahaina and the Tropical Plantation in Waikapu along with the Maui Fresh Store in Hailemaile, are such outlets. Also, the amazing Long%26#39;s Drug Stores often offer a great selection of locally grown well-priced produce. Arrive early as they sell out quickly.

Best places to buy local fruit and veggies.

Wow, thank you for all the great information. We are so looking forward to all the raw food!

LinaKaJoy,

I%26#39;ve been reading some of these post and let me say, you have posted some excellent ideas and information. Keep it up!

Another question regarding the locally grown foods....

other than the obvious (pineapples, maui onions, mangos) are most types of tropical fruits grown/available in Maui (i.e. passion fruit, star fruit, guava fruit, dragon fruit, etc)

While I love pineapple/mango/etc, I can get great one%26#39;s here in town (albeit for quite a bit more money).

Thanks!

Check out the Ono farms website for some great ideas ... and as always, there are growing seasons, even on Maui, so some things may not be available while you are there. If you stop by their booth in Hana, or at Maui Swap Meet in Kahului on Sat AM, they will tell you all about unusual items and often let you taste before you buy. These are great folks ...

http://www.onofarms.com/

They even have a ';ONO Exotic, Tropical Fruit Tasting Adventure'; -- surrounded by abiu, avocado, apple banana, ice cream banana, Cuban red banana, mountain apple, rose apple, star apple, star fruit, cacao (chocolate), cinnamon, durian, strawberry papaya, low-acid white pineapple, lychee, mango, breadfruit, jackfruit, red sweetsop, soursop, coffee, white and chocolate sapote, pink and white pomelo, pomegranate, egg fruit, kumquat, sweet lilikoi (passion fruit), rambutan, tamarind, tangelo, tangerine, gourmet guava, oranges, and more.

Tours are on Monday and Thursday afternoons; IF you are n Hana

Reservations: Call us at (808) 248-7779, send e-mail to tours@onofarms.com

';Farmer’s Market of Maui, just past Suda%26#39;s from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. M/W/F

Where is exactly is the old Suda Store? I looked online and all I could find was a notation from 2003 that the store is closing.

I also looked up Farmer%26#39;s Market of Maui 1 to get more info - both phone numbers I found were out of order. :-(

Any info as to the address of the Farmer%26#39;s Market and a working phone number would be really appreciated.

Some of the information posted here is close, but needs some cleaning up.

There are many farmer%26#39;s markets and craft fairs, but not all are worth the time or your money, IMO. My very favorite and still the reigning champ of markets has to be the Aloha Friday Farmer%26#39;s Market from noon to 6 on Fridays at the college in Kahului. It is a product of the Maui AgMarketing coalition and you will find the best of Maui at this event, local produce and food products, such as honey, jams, cheeses, baked goods, flowers and more.

Also in Kahului there are markets at the Maui Mall and the Queen Ka`ahumanu Shopping Center on Tues, Wed, and Fri mornings till afternoon. Selection is usually pretty good and I make the trip to Queen Ka`ahumanu at least once a month, if nothing else for the fried mango mochi from the mochi lady found in the center courtyard just across from the Queen Ka`ahumanu statue

In Wailuku there is the new Wailuku Banyan Tree Park in the lot that used to house a hit or miss market. They have a few tables set up during the week, and I just checked it out for the first time lat week. It was OK, but not much selection. Onions, mangoes, the usual suspects. Uncle Richard Ho`opi`i has been playing there on random afternoons though, so that would be worth stopping.

Upcountry there is a market on Saturday morning in Makawao at Eddie Tam, and on Sundays at Morihara market in Kula.

In Kihei the Nishiki Market isn%26#39;t past Suda%26#39;s, it is in the parking lot. Suda%26#39;s was a longtime Kihei fixture, but has since closed and as of recently Suda Store is now an ABC store. It is in North Kihei, just after you turn onto Kihei Rd from Mokulele, across from the cnaoe club and next to the Kihei Youth Center. For now, the Weinberg Foundation who owns the property, allowing the market to remain month-to-month. But they are open everyday now, I think from 9 -4. I have heard they were opening a storefront in Honokowai--Maui Farmers Market and Deli, across from were they have the Honokowai market. Not sure how that is going. On a side note, the Suda family tradition will continue on the upper highway, by the Tesoro when the new Suda Seafood Deli opens in coming months. I hope they bring back Hatsuko%26#39;s chow fun!

And there is always Longs on Saturday mornings. A good selection of mostly upcountry and Big Island produce. You can always find Maui onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, squash, Okinawan potatoes, green beans and various fruit in season.

Thanks for all the detailed info. I will be in Kehei for two weks in October and was about to ask the same question. Aloha.

Oops! Kihei. :-)

';And there is always Longs on Saturday mornings. A good selection of mostly upcountry and Big Island produce. You can always find Maui onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, squash, Okinawan potatoes, green beans and various fruit in season.';

I am not sure how many Longs Drugs there are on Maui. Is the Longs I should be going to on Saturday morning in the Azeka Center in Kihei?

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