KHON2 Hawaii Island Week: Kuleana Rum Shack (Video)
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Rum Agricole made with Native Hawaiian Sugarcane
When we recognize we all have an equal right to these type of things, such as the crops that have collectively been developed by groups of people, then the emphasis becomes not on ownership and rights, but no one's responsibility to use them appropriately.
Fly over the Kuleana Sugarcane Farm
Get a birds' eye view by watching this video of aerial footage over Upolu Point and the Kuleana Sugarcane Farm.
Hawai'i Magazine: This Hawaiʻi Island Rum is All About the Farm-To-Glass Experience
It’s notoriously windy in North Kohala. Trade winds reliably blast Hawai‘i Island’s northern coast and the smoothed hump of its oldest volcano.
It’s morning as I step out of an air-conditioned tour vehicle onto the dusty landscape. Tucked behind a row of windmills, on a 40-acre plot, leafy stems tower above me, shaking in the wind. Sugar. If you visited this spot 150 years ago, the scene would be similar (minus the windmills, of course): The relentless Hawaiian sun, a sparkling blue ocean backdrop and the trade winds coaxing cane leaves to emit rain sounds when there’s barely a cloud in the sky.