Pies Pies Pies
Maui Country Farm Tours will take you to the farms in style. One of the farms we’ll be stopping at is Kula Country Farms Up-country farm. Last weekend we had The Pie TweetUp and it was a great success! Dania Katz of Edible Hawaiian Islands Magazine hosted a wonderful #PieTweetUp at Kula Country Farms. The hashtag received so much attention on Twitter that our Social Media Community took notice and they showed up with pies!
Dania Katz
Teena Monden and her staff at Kula Country Farms set up tents and arranged picnic tables for us to meet and share the bounty. What an incredible view of West Maui below. The Pies just kept on coming. Dania created a Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, Banana Cream Pie and assorted treats. I prepared a Mango-Crumb Pie. Nadine of @SneakPeekEats baked a gorgeous Surinam Cherry Lattice Pie.
Nadine's Surinam Cherry Pie
The Theme was Local Ingredients so we tried to use only what’s grown on Maui. Some imported ingredients had to be used. My pie was made with all Local Mangos and The Gossip Gourmet of Maui-No-Ka-Oi Magazine said it was To-die-for. I had forgotten to add spices like cinnamon but the Mango flavored with lemon juice and dotted with butter and a brown sugar crumb topping was amazing!
My Mango Pie
I was so busy meeting people and taking pictures (as usual), that I barely had a chance to sample all the pies. I tried a sliver of the cherry pie, my mango pie and when Jen Russo arrived with a Mushroom Pizza Pie, I was hungry for food. It was delicious!
Teena Monden, Dania and Renee
Then it was time to check out the farm so I wandered off with the kids who were exploring…
We walked down a gentle path to the big strawberry patch. The view is incredible. There are wildflowers and cala lilies planted throughout the land. Chickens of all types are wandering about. The goats were down below in their pen on this day. The Monden Family leases over 140 acres of land here.
The Strawberry Patch
Thanks to Dania we had a very successful event. Thank you to everyone who contributed pies. Liza of @AMauiBlog kept a list of most of the Twitter handles so we can all keep in touch.
Dania and Marilyn
We look forward to many more Country Farm Tweet-Ups and events coming up throughout the year. Maui Country Farm Tours will take groups of seven on customized tours Up-Country and the West side of Maui. We’ll be visiting coffee farms, the dragonfruit farm, taro farms and flower farms. Don’t forget Surfing Goat Dairy. Upon request we can even visit Ono Farms in Hana.
Aloha from Kula Country Farms
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This is making me soooo hungry, can’t wait to go on this tour!!
I’m getting hungry too! We’ll have plenty of good food on the tour, too! Local fruits, salads, and dessert. What’s your favorite pie?
woo hoo! this is great! Can’t wait to see this tour IRL!
Melissa, we’re going to have such a great time showing people Maui in our 8 passenger van. When you coming back? We’d love to have you.
Count me in too! Looking forward to being a Maui resident.
Roxanne, I look forward to having you and Shane on our country farm tours. It will be so much fun! Welcome to Maui. We’re very happy to have you here.
Wow, sounds yummy! I love the emphasis on locally grown. Keep me posted on future events!
Thanks Courtney, I will keep you posted as we do tours and video all the farms. You can also subscribe here for rss feeds or e-mail updates.
Dear Marilyn,
I can’t wait for your farm tour! Thank you for this post. Reading it and looking at it reminds me of the great afternoon we all had. Wonderful memories.
Dania, I’m dreaming night and day of the wonderful times we’re going to have taking people to the farms. I really look forward to small farmers opening their farms to the public and selling their products! Ag-Tourism Yay!
Yum, surinam cherry pie! I’m from upcountry Maui (now living on Oahu) and my grandmother had a HUGE surinam cherry tree in our yard. She never made pie, but we always had delicious jam from the tree. I miss it so much!
I don’t get back to Maui as often now that the fare wars have stopped, but I’ll definitely keep your tours in mind to recommend for foodies visiting! Sounds absolutely wonderful. =)
Hi Malia,
The Surinam Cherry was so great. Tangy but sweet!
Come back to Maui and visit us. We’ll customize a tour for you! Thanks so much for commenting…
What a wonderful event Marilyn and it looks like it was sprinkled in fairy dust-or should I say the sweetest sugar!
Lorraine, it was an awesome country day on Maui. We’re planning many more farm-to-table events. Localicious!
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