Begins 8:00 a.m.
Entrepreneurs Sandbox
643 Ilalo St, Honolulu
On-site Parking Avaiable for $1/hour
643 Ilalo St, Honolulu
Enjoy a breakfast of pastries and coffee (provided)
Harish Manoj Kumar from Regal Farms will tell us all about growing cacao in India. Harish's family has been growing cacao on Regal Farms since 2005, first as an intercrop to boost the farm's healthy diversity and later as a valuable product in its own right. Regal Farms has more than 50 employees, uses an all-organic agroforestry apporach and grows India's most famous specialty cocoa used by hundreds of craft chocolate makers around the world.
An update on what's happening next for the cacao industry in Hawaii. Updates from the HCCA, research, and government institutions.
Enjoy lunch from a local chef. (provided)
Dr John Clarke, Clinical Professor and Division Vice-Chief of Education at Stanford University.
Attendees will have the option to sign-up on the day to visit one of the below sites. Site visits are scheduled for 2 p.m. and are first-come-first-served. Transportation is not provided.
711 Queen Street, Honolulu
- via Cooke St
905 Kalanianaole Hwy #3202, Kailua
- Ala Moana Blvd and Alakea St to Pali Hwy, continue on Pali Hwy to Kapaa Quarry Rd via HI-61, follow Kapaa Quarry Rd to Kapaa Quarry Pl. Mānoa Chocolate Factory is on your left.
56-800 Kamehameha Hwy, Kahuku
- Ilalo St to Ala Moana Blvd, Follow Pali Hwy and HI-83 N through Kahuku, then Kahuku Farms is on the left.
49-65 Kamehameha Hwy, Kaneohe
Turn off is about one mile south of Kualoa Main Ranch entrance. Parking is at the small green building with brown trim, straight ahead after turning in off the highway.
Do you have what it takes to bring home the gold?!?
Enjoy dinner and refreshments overlooking taro fields and the ocean. (provided)