Lydgate Farms’ Chocolate Farm Tour

Lydgate Farms Cacao
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How Hawaiʻi’s Cacao is Making the World Sweeter

I make a scoop with my hand and pull out sticky, slippery white beans from a ridged, yellow pod. It’s a cloudy Friday afternoon in Kapaʻa in East Kauaʻi. I’m in a small clearing in a cacao orchard on Lydgate Farms. Every month, Will Lydgate, the owner and namesake of Lydgate Farms, hosts cacao-harvesting volunteer

Lydgate Farms on Kauai Cacao
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4 Family-Friendly Hawaii Farms to Check Out on Your Next Vacation

A messy-haired boy in a superhero-red T-shirt and Crocs lowers himself to the level of two baby goats. One nudges his hand with its bony head, and the kid laughs hysterically. “Mom, mom, the goat head-butted me,” he calls out, smiling. Getting up close and personal with farm animals is part of the experience at

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