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Farmer Profile: Manuel Marques

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...

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Movement to Preserve Small Businesses

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...

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Hatchery and Country Store

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...

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First Heritage Hatch of 2010: Order Round Up

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...

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Happy New Year!

We hope everyone has safely landed into 2010 and finding it a nice place to be! Here are some new developments at Asagi Hatchery: It's that time of year again! This spring rings in our third heritage hatching season. Please email or phone your orders in by January 29 for the first hatch of the year. Aracaunas, Buff Orpington, Silver Lace Wyandotte, Mile Fleur, Brahma, Silkies, Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, White Crested Black Polish and more! We're stocked with an array of dwarf fruit trees ready to plant (into yard or bucket for balcony urban mini-farms), conventional and organic chicken...

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