Tea and Cacao: Farms of Hawaii

It's Garden Month, which means that we're not only looking at our own gardens but the larger fields and farms of agriculture across the world. We were fascinated by this glimpse of tea and cacao plantations in Hawaii...

Author Julie Sloane tours several of Hawaii's farms and you get an up close look at the growing agriculture industries of the islands. We love the shot of the inside of a gooey cacao bean, above. There are photos of tea plantations, more cacao and its process to becoming chocolate, and, yes, geckos too.

See the full slideshow at CNN/Money.

• Cacao, Tea, and Geckos

Also see:

• Tasting Hawaii by the same author

(Images: Noah Waters for CNN/Fortune)

Comments (2)

thanks so much for this post. sources of tea will be increasingly important in the era of food shortages, environmental decline. hawaii is a huge treasure, vastly misunderstood by most US citizens, perhaps.

posted by avianmission on May 2nd 2008 at 6:58am
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Oh my! My cousin lives right next to that valley. Seriously one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Thanks for the post! Now I want to go back to Hawaii. :-)

posted by Stylebites on May 5th 2008 at 12:57am
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