TGIFr!day by The Garden Island Newspaper

Week of Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 | Vol. 4, No. 52

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Chocolate! Steelgrass farm offers tours that are sweet as honey

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

2-3. COMMUNITY:

New Year’s Eve celebration

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK

TODAY

‘Haikus for Jews: For You, a Little Wisdom.”

FREE KEIKI MOVIE 2:45 to 4:15 pm., Lihue Library Please join us for a monthly keiki movie in the Lihue Library conference room, where we show a G or PG rated movie. A small snack will be provided, while supplies last. Keiki under five years old must be accompanied by an adult.

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20TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 6 to 8 p.m., Historic County Building.

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On the cover: Will Lydgate, owner of Steelgrass Chocolate Farm, is ready for the farm’s chocolate and exotic fruit tour.

Photo by Jessica Else/TGI

SATURDAY SLACK KEY GUITAR & UKULELE CONCERT 6 to 8 p.m. Princeville Community Center, $10-25 Free gift drawing. Proceeds support Princeville at Hanalei Community Association. 826-1469 NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION 6 to 8:30 p.m. Poipu Beach Park Movie, fireworks, free. Food vendors will also be there and offering food for a charge.

Parking in the Poipu area is limited so it’s best to arrive early.

MONDAY ACTION FROM THE HEART 6:30 to 8 p.m., Center for Spiritual Living Kauai, 41579 Kuhio Highway Free. A peaceful discussion on how to take spiritual social action as we meet our global challenges. Be the change you want to be.

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Fireworks will fill the sky over Poipu Beach on New Year’s Eve.

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OIPU — There aren’t many places to go for New Year’s celebrations on Kauai, but the Poipu Beach Resort Association is offering an opportunity to enjoy the new year in style. “There’s no other New Year’s Eve event on the island. And there’s definitely no free fireworks event on the island,” said Jody Kjeldsen, executive director of the Poipu Beach Resort Association. “It’s part of our goal to provide something for the public, visitors and residents, that they can

The Poipu Beach Resort Association is putting on its annual New Year’s Eve Celebration

enjoy free of charge.” PBRA is hosting the New Year’s Eve Celebration on Saturday at Poipu Beach Park. The free event is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m with food trucks followed by a movie in the park at 6:45, ending with a fireworks show at 8:15 p.m. The feature presentation is Disney’s ‘BFG

– Big Friendly Giant’. The fireworks show is hosted by Poipu Beach Resort Association and is a New Year’s Eve tradition in Poipu that dates back over 10 years ago. “We used to do a concert in the park with food trucks, but it sort of morphed into more of a movie night type of thing,” Kjeldsen said. “We’re trying to

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fireworks are launched, they’re launched from quite a far distance. Here, they are launched from the Keiki Lagoon, just beyond the safety zone with close proximity to the water and show.” Parking in the Poipu area is limited. Additional parking will be available off of

Hoowili Road. Those who live or are staying in the area are encouraged to walk or bike to the park. As a safety precaution, the Keiki Lagoon at Poipu will be closed to beachgoers on Saturday. Info: www.poipubeach.org or 742-7444

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in town keep it more family-friendly and family-orientated going into the new year.” As for the real show after the movie, there’s nothing like watching a fireworks

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display at Poipu Beach, Kjeldsen said. “Residents and visitors will be sitting there on the beach where the fireworks are launched,” Kjeldsen

told The Garden Island. “I think it’s going to be more of a personal, up-close experience because they’re going to be closer to the fireworks. Usually when

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Andrea Kiser opens a cacao pod for the visitors on the Lydgate Steelgrass Chocolate Farm tour.

he bees at Steelgrass Chocolate Farm gave Victoria Bernard her first-ever taste of honey and now the Texan, who hails from Sugar Land, has a tasty Kauai memory to take home. “I’ve just never tried honey,” she said. “It’s sweeter than I thought it would be.” Bernard was one of about 15 people who recently took the three-hour Steelgrass Chocolate Farm tour at the Lydgate family farm. The nearly 40-acre farm has around 10 varieties of cacao trees, as well as dozens of fruit trees, microgreens and other plants. Public tours are scheduled three times a week and cost $75 a ticket. Will Lydgate, who owns the family farm with his sister Emily, said bringing people to visit is a huge

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SWEET piece of what keeps them in business. “Agrotourism is really a positive thing and it’s letting me do some exciting things,” Lydgate said. “It’s a whole new world of farming and doing ag on ag land in Hawaii isn’t actually as easy as it sounds.” Lydgate started the chocolate tours at the farm in 2007. He said his tours are the first of the several chocolate farm tours around the

sapote, eggfruit, soursop, rambutan and Tahitian limes. Kauai honey and local island. dragonfruit was the jackpot “There are others who for Luis Reis, who is visiting have imitated but they can’t the island from Monterey, compare to the original,” LyCalifornia. dgate said. “We have a farm. “Just put the dragonfruit We’re growing chocolate.” in that honey,” he suggested In addition to tasting to Molly Lorenzi, also from more than 10 different kinds Monterey. “It’s awesome.” of chocolate and farmA stand of papyrus plants made honey, visitors can takes center stage for part try exotic fruits like mamey of the tour. Guide Andrea JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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the growth of the industry from the original Mesoamerican cultures in which it was revered to its current place in the food chain. There are many differences between “mainstream” everyone how to dig out Kiser, of Wailua, showed chocolate and more pure the sweet fruit and antioxguests how to slice up the and handcrafted chocolate, idant-rich beans from the stalk while she explained which still has real cacao pods, letting guests get a the paper-making process. butter and a high concentaste of the raw fruit. “It’s never worked out tration of real cacao. “And now I’m going to very well when I’ve tried it, “Real chocolate is take you to this tent and but maybe that’s because actually good for you. It’s we’re going to put a whole recommended to eat one I didn’t soak it in the Nile,” bunch of chocolate in your ounce of dark chocolate, 60 she joked with the visitors. face,” she said, leading the “That’s what they did in percent or more, every day,” guests to a tent set up in a ancient Egypt when they Lydgate said. “It’s a superbamboo forest. made paper.” food that tastes better than Between the 10 flights of kale.” After hacking a cacao pod in half with a machete chocolate bars, Kiser offered Kiser added: “I just get for the guests, Kiser showed tidbits of history, following here in the morning and

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Tuesday to Friday - 8:30am to 2:00pm Saturday & Sunday - 9:00am to 3:00pm

Where The Locals Eat

Victoria Bernard, of Sugar Land, Texas, tries eggfruit for the first time at the Lydgate Steelgrass Chocolate Farm tour.

to tell people about the benefits of cacao. “And everyone loves chocolate,” her said. “Every-

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grab a bean or two, and there’s my antioxidants for the day.” Lydgate, who was born in California, is the fifth-generation member of his family to live in the Hawaiian Islands. He returned to Kauai as a teenager after hearing family stories of life on the island, and is proud to be carrying on the name here. “I’m named after my great-great-grandfather, William Lydgate,” he said, “and I’d like to think he’d be proud of me, running a family farm out here and making it happen.” Hosting visitors is equally as important to Lydgate, uses much of his free time

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