Richard Ha’s Farm Ends Operations
Hamakua Springs Country Farms on the Big Island plans to share the fruit of its final harvest.
Some businesses offer things for free to lure in new customers.
The owners of the 600-acre Hamakua Springs Country Farms on the Big Island plan to give away thousands of bananas on Friday as a gesture of appreciation for a community鈥檚 business.
鈥淚t鈥檚 our way of saying thanks for all your support over these past 35 years, which we truly appreciate,鈥 farmer Richard Ha .
鈥淧lease come and take聽some bananas, with our sincere mahalo and aloha for all your support over the years!鈥
Tight margins, volatile costs and agricultural diseases are sapping the energy of farmers, and convinced the Ha Family that their business could no longer pencil out.
The end of their agricultural operations will leave 26 employees without jobs.
Those interested in the contents of 300聽boxes of bananas from the farm鈥檚 final harvest should drop in on the Hilo soccer fields on Kumu Street at 10 a.m.
And feel free to spread a little aloha.
