Fork & Salad is currently planning a 4th Friday Farmers Market and beer garden (pending liquor license approval) for our grand opening and blessing on August 26, 2016. This farmers market will feature partners’ farms and vendors currently supplying produce for the restaurant. Our goal is to reestablish the communities’ connections to their food — where it comes from and who grows it. We believe having a better understanding of this will encourage more people to buy local, supporting Maui’s economy and inspiring even more agriculture. Through getting to know who grows your food, you can better understand the lives of our farmers, their passion for what they do for a living, and the critical role they play in our island’s sustainability.
Know Your Farmers: Waihe‘e Valley Plantation
Whether you’re used to seeing them covered in chocolate or hanging from trees, macadamia nuts are part of Maui, and are included in our farm-to-table culture. At Fork & Salad, we use them fresh on our salad ingredient line, and in our popular mac nut pesto (featured on several signature sandwiches). Waihe‘e Valley Plantation takes great pride in growing mac nuts in the most natural, sustainable ways possible. In this “Know Your Farmers” video, Chef Travis visits the peaceful Maui plantation, home to around 17,000 mac nut trees on more than 11,000 acres. Get more details on the operation in our blog on Waihe‘e Valley Plantation.
