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It’s been an intense last couple of months at the hatchery.  Mostly because we feel it is a momentous year for us. Asagi Hatchery makes 75 years in these next months.  When we look back we see not only our own journey, but the path of the 20th century that has shaped and affected us all.  For better and for worse. The first 25 years, 1935-59, we started off and grew as a farm and hatchery right on Damon Tract.  A place where my grandfather, all of his brothers and one sister worked together and raised their young families.  Hatching...

Here is profile of the Ka’u farmer whose  bags of whole bean, hand roasted coffee we are featuring right now at the hatchery.  Please come by, lend your support and treat yourself to some exquisite coffee.  And please, spread the word.  More profiles of more farmers and their great work to come. Ka'u coffee farmer, Manuel Marques   Farmer Profile-Manuel Marques   Manuel Marques farms eight magnificent acres of coffee orchards at 1800’ elevation in Cloud Rest Coffee Park at Moaula, located in the Ka’u district on the Big Island of Hawaii. Manuel has a reputation among his peers as an outstanding farmer...

A few weeks ago, looking through a stack of old magazines at the hatchery, we came across a December 1958 issue of the Hawaii Farm Bureau magazine and found this. 1958.  We were still at Damon Tract and we were still a farm.  A real farm that could hatch and grow chickens and vegetables. Where people could come to buy not just chicks, but eggs and chicken freshly dressed for that night's supper. It was a year before statehood.  A year before the Tract was sold to a realtor for developing, resulting in not only our family's farm's closure but...

Well, it's nearly official.  We're expanding the hatchery slowly into a country store. Why?  Because it's fun and because there are so many people growing very ono and special things and we want to make sure as much people as possible have access to them. We started off with carrying the freshest eggs in the world, from our friend Sharon Peterson Cheape's family farm, Peterson Upland, in Wahiawa.  Then we began bringing in dwarf fruit trees ready to plant from our friends on Hawai'i Island. And now we are please to announce that you can find award-winning, whole bean coffee...

We're rounding up our first specialty hatch order for 2010 and just checking in with folks who emailed recently asking about it. We're hoping to get the order in by Feb 16. Here is a list of heritage breeds available this year so far. Please keep in mind we are not able to sex these breeds so all chicks are sold as a straight-run.  The price per chick ranges between $5-$10.  Please place your order as soon as possible, we're shooting for February 16th deadline, which would place the hatch just around the 3rd week of March. -LARGE BREEDS:  Rhode...