Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Hilo, HI

Papaikou

Hamakua Liquid Gold harvests raw, organic honey from hives kept along the Hamakua Coast between Hilo and Waipiʻo Valley, a stretch locals call the "Breath of God." The honey is sold unfiltered and untreated, straight off the extractor.

Papaikou

Hamakua Chocolate Farm is a six-acre cacao operation in Papaikou built out by owners Dan and Berndt into something closer to a botanical garden, complete with a suspension bridge and treehouse. The $99 guided tour runs three hours on Wednesdays and Saturdays by advance booking, covering harvest, fermentation, and drying before a full chocolate tasting.

Keaau

A Beautiful Day is a rainforest retreat on 39th Street in Keaau offering spa treatments and wellness programs on wooded acreage outside Hilo. Little additional detail was verifiable online beyond its listing as a rural wellness stop.

Keaau

Raw Hawaiian Honey Company is run by a third-generation beekeeper producing single-varietal honeys, including Lehua and macadamia blossom, from hives on Hawaii Island. The operation follows organic beekeeping practices and also sells bee pollen, with orders shipped free over $45 from its base on 21st Avenue in Keaau.

Honomu

Kaye Family Farm grows lychee on 28 acres near Akaka Falls on the Hamakua Coast, land that was once a sugar plantation and later an organic ginger operation. Its 120 lychee trees produce about 5,000 pounds of fruit each May, sold as Kaimana Lychee and shipped only within Hawaii; pick-your-own visits run by appointment, with roughly 50 other tropical fruit varieties also grown on-site.

Ninole

Hamakua Christmas Tree Forest grows choose-and-cut Portuguese and Arizona cypress on open-air fields along the Hamakua Coast, started in 2015 by Rich and Nancy Bradwell. Reservations run July through December, with a $20 Forest Family Ticket credited toward whichever tree you pick and cut yourself; potted trees and delivery are also available.

Pahoa

Hawaiian Noni Juice comes from Healing Noni Co., a family farm on Pahoa's Kalapana Highway that has grown and bottled noni for more than two decades. Fruit is hand-picked, hand-washed, and sun-ripened before cold-pressing, and the label lists a single ingredient: noni juice. The farm also grows u-pick white pineapple, avocado, mango, jackfruit, and apple bananas, and rents small on-site cabins.