HONOLULU (KHON2) — On a breezy stretch of Kamehameha Highway on Oʻahu’s North Shore, just past shrimp trucks and crashing waves, sits Kahuku Farms. It’s a fourth-generation family operation that’s getting national attention.
The farm’s café, already beloved by locals and visitors alike, has just been nominated in Newsweek’s Readers’ Choice competition for Best Farm-to-Table Restaurant in the United States.
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“Farm to table is a huge buzzword these days,” said Judah Lum, director of operations for Kahuku Farms. “And we can say that our farm café truly is a farm to table experience where we offer fresh ingredients straight from our fields and neighboring farms.”
A legacy rooted in North Shore soil
Kahuku Farms is the result of more than 100 years of agricultural heritage. The Matsuda and Fukuyama families, who immigrated from Japan to work Hawaiʻi’s sugar plantations in the early 1900s, eventually began growing their own crops.
Clyde Fukuyama and Melvin Matsuda were childhood friends who decided to merge their farms in the 1980s. Their handshake deal created Matsuda-Fukuyama Farms, the parent company behind today’s 140-acre operation…