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Suppliers
Indigenous Soap
“Indigenous Soap” is the brainchild of Love Chance and Eric Gamundoy. Love and Eric started their business in 2003 with a mission to “Provide the people with quality natural handmade soap and body care products that are synthetic free. To increase the consciousness of our extended indigenous family (customers) about the goodness of using natural things on the body as opposed to synthetic ones.” These are premium, handcrafted soaps with 100% natural ingredients. Containing essential oils, each bar has a wonderful smell and effect on your body. There are several varieties available in two sizes; 5 oz bath and 2 oz travel size, each beautifully wrapped in brown paper and printed in brown and earth tones with pertinent information inside each package. Having a unique rectangular shape makes them easy to hold in the tub or shower and their beautiful packaging makes them ideal as a gift idea or for your home.
Kulana Beef
Employing 25 full time employees on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kulana’s roots go back to 1939. Mr. Brady Yagi is a third generation owner preserving the beliefs and standards of the family. All Kulana cattle are free range, grass fed and are born and raised to maturity on the Island. Kulana has USDA certification and all facility operations are overseen by a USDA inspector. In addition to retail cuts and packaging Kulana provides Hawaiian free range, grass fed beef to many of the finer restaurants on the Islands and to the Kokua kitchen.
See video of Tom Asano talking about Kulana Beef HERE.
Pat's Hawaii (aka The Avo Man)
Pat Sinclair is an avocado distributor on the Big Island who has been in business for over 30 years, and he fondly talks about how Kokua Market was his very first account on Oahu. His philosophy and mission is to help small family farms in Kona to make extra money through purchasing avocados from them at the highest price and turning around and selling them at the lowest possible price to stores like Kokua Market, thus taking good care of the farmers and passing the savings on to the consumer. The growing season lasts about 9 months with summer being the off season. When his avocados are available, Kokua is the first store he will sell them to, and at the end of the season, Kokua is his last customer. Pat believes in being a steward of the land and is as environmentally conscious as possible. For example, the avocados are all shade grown in a natural bed of leaves, pesticide free. The highest quality product is very important to him. To provide such high quality, Pat and the farmers put their resources together as a community to grow the best possible avocados. We hope you enjoy the wonderful Sharwell’s from Pat.
“Indigenous Soap” is the brainchild of Love Chance and Eric Gamundoy. Love and Eric started their business in 2003 with a mission to “Provide the people with quality natural handmade soap and body care products that are synthetic free. To increase the consciousness of our extended indigenous family (customers) about the goodness of using natural things on the body as opposed to synthetic ones.” These are premium, handcrafted soaps with 100% natural ingredients. Containing essential oils, each bar has a wonderful smell and effect on your body. There are several varieties available in two sizes; 5 oz bath and 2 oz travel size, each beautifully wrapped in brown paper and printed in brown and earth tones with pertinent information inside each package. Having a unique rectangular shape makes them easy to hold in the tub or shower and their beautiful packaging makes them ideal as a gift idea or for your home.
Kulana Beef
Employing 25 full time employees on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kulana’s roots go back to 1939. Mr. Brady Yagi is a third generation owner preserving the beliefs and standards of the family. All Kulana cattle are free range, grass fed and are born and raised to maturity on the Island. Kulana has USDA certification and all facility operations are overseen by a USDA inspector. In addition to retail cuts and packaging Kulana provides Hawaiian free range, grass fed beef to many of the finer restaurants on the Islands and to the Kokua kitchen.
See video of Tom Asano talking about Kulana Beef HERE.
Pat's Hawaii (aka The Avo Man)
Pat Sinclair is an avocado distributor on the Big Island who has been in business for over 30 years, and he fondly talks about how Kokua Market was his very first account on Oahu. His philosophy and mission is to help small family farms in Kona to make extra money through purchasing avocados from them at the highest price and turning around and selling them at the lowest possible price to stores like Kokua Market, thus taking good care of the farmers and passing the savings on to the consumer. The growing season lasts about 9 months with summer being the off season. When his avocados are available, Kokua is the first store he will sell them to, and at the end of the season, Kokua is his last customer. Pat believes in being a steward of the land and is as environmentally conscious as possible. For example, the avocados are all shade grown in a natural bed of leaves, pesticide free. The highest quality product is very important to him. To provide such high quality, Pat and the farmers put their resources together as a community to grow the best possible avocados. We hope you enjoy the wonderful Sharwell’s from Pat.
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