Kawanui Farm

Blog #4 3/2022: Table Grape Varieties for Subtropical Hawai'i Trials Pruning the Vineyards, Making and Planting Scions, Winners of the past 7 years Photo Below: Before Pruning Winter 2022 The Fall of 2021 saw a shift in the weather pattern that Kona had been experiencing over the past 3 years, which was increased rainfall (approximately 94” per year), cooler daytime and nighttime temperatures, no dry season, and cloudy days. The shift has been to more of the “normal” weathe

November 2021 - Table Grapes for Hawai'i Research and Education Project Aloha Everyone, Welcome back to our second Grape Blog. It's now November 2021 and much has happened over the past 3 months so we would like to catch you up on Gerry’s grape and vineyard observations. The summer 2021 grape harvest was thin all around, in quantity and taste due to the very unusual cold wet weather over the past two years on the Kona Coast. Usually Kona experiences a wet/dry seasonal shift

By Gerry Herbert and Nancy Redfeather - Kawanui Farm - July 2021-Blog #1 Gerry and I want to welcome all of you to our 2-year grape research & education project for Hawai'i. Mahalo for your interest in this project that was made possible by Western SARE (Sustainable Agriculture, Research, & Education Initiative/USDA) and NIFA (National Institute for Food & Agriculture). I’d like to tell you a little about Gerry and how he came to be doing this work. Gerry began planting gra