Island Business

Island Business stories published in Maui Nō Ka ʻOi Magazine.

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Family Tree

At Hashimoto Farm, persimmons are a way of life, generation after generation.
Pasha Cargo Shipping

Precious Cargo

Every issue of Maui Nō Ka ‘Oi spends its first week traveling the Pacific. We went along for the journey.
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Seeds of Change: Sensei Farms Lānaʻi

Technology meets tomatoes at Sensei Farms Lānaʻi.
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Wild Harvest

Maui offers bees a friendly environment, and their keepers the potential for sweet rewards.
Maui Farmers

Growing Farmers

Hawaiʻi cultivates new farmers.
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Paper, Scissors . . . Wrappily Rocks!

This Maui mom turned a throwaway commodity into a flat-out brilliant business model.
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The Wild Side of Luxury

An interview with Courtney Brown, R(S), vice president of Island Sotheby's West Maui.
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Heritage Crops

Heritage Crops: Part 4 in our yearlong look at the future of Maui agriculture.
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Best Slippah Forward

The annual 5k Visitor Industry Charity Walk is raising much needed funds for local Maui nonprofit organizations, one step at a time.

Island Institutions

Four of our favorite local businesses that have stood the test of time.
Roselani Hawaii Ice cream

Da Local Scoop

Manuel Nobriga began making ice cream from scratch in 1932. Now Roselani is an island favorite dessert only available in Hawaii.
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The Few. The Small. The Delicious.

How will Maui’s landscape change, now that Big Ag is gone? The answer may lie with new “boutique” farms that offer the promise of diversity.
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From the Ground Up

We explore a few of Maui's boutique crops - part six in a yearlong series on Maui agriculture.
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Coping with Covid: Maui Resort Update

Safety is the new luxury at Maui resorts.
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Inside the Dragon’s Den

No need to dig a hole to China—Malik Cotter brings the healing arts of the Far East to Makawao Town.
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Sound Investment (VIDEO)

Haleakala Ranch goes out on a limb to conserve native forest — by harvesting trees to transform into koa guitars.
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True to Their Roots: ‘Āina Brands

How a really bad cup of coffee resulted in support for our community.

Maui’s Changing Landscape

With this first installment in a yearlong series, we explore the future of farming on our still mostly rural island.
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It Takes a Village

Village Galleries celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in December 2020.
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Financial Aid

A four-year college could be an economic engine for Maui. Can MCC make the grade?
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Listen Up

Requests Music in Wailuku, Maui sells CDs, cassette tapes, vinyl records and even eight-track tapes.
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The Sailmakers

Sail designers and Maui's trade winds are a match made in heaven (and at sea).
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Kitchen Startup

Maui’s new Food Innovation Center offers entrepreneurs recipes for success.
Central Pacific Bank

Keeping Good Company

The companies spotlighted here have defied the odds over the past two decades while others shut down. How have these businesses managed to survive?
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An Appetite for Culture + VIDEO

How Maui farmers are cultivating ancient wisdom to feed a population—and a hunger for culture.

Flower Power

The sun may have set on two of Maui’s main agribusinesses, but a local company is betting its future on energy crops.
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Ono Organic

Ono Farms is the largest tropical organic fruit farm in the state.