Kuilima Farm

The Farm Stand at Kuilima Farm is located mauka of The Ritz-Carlton Oʻahu, Turtle Bay, across from Kawela Bay. Stop by to enjoy farm fresh goods and desserts!

Hours of Operation

Daily, 9am to 5pm

Save the date and join us at The Ritz-Carlton Oʻahu, Turtle Bay’s Kuilima Farm for the 4th Annual Fall Festival on Saturday, November 8th, and Sunday the 9th!

Activities include:

• Ono food and beverage vendors
• Family fun tractor rides
• Pony carriage rides
• Petting zoo
• Pumpkin painting, crafts and kids educational booths
• Live music, dance performances and entertainment all-day!

Mark your calendars and join us from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each day for a memorable celebration of the season. We look forward to welcoming you to Kuilima Farm’s Fall Festival!

To learn more about upcoming events, follow us on Instagram @kuilimafarm

Part of Kuilima Farm’s mission is to provide activities that educate both residents and guests on regenerative agriculture and Hawaiian culture. Visit Kuilima Farm and explore:

• A 25-acre model farm tour
• A fully operational hydroponics facility: integrating techniques to produce more food in small, protected spaces and recycling water
• A native Hawaiian garden located at the piko, or center, of our model farm

Kuilima Farm is currently home to over half a million bees! Purple and blue flowers are honeybees' favorite colors (they see ultraviolet light) so Kuilima Farm with its herbs, fruits and food plant flowers is a great place for honeybees to find nourishment. Thanks to a partnership with Hānai Hives, the Kuilima Farm honey recently had its first harvest. The Kuilima Farm honey is hand-harvested in small batches with Aloha. It’s available for sale at the roadside Kuilima Farm stand, which is open daily 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on your way to or from Turtle Bay on the mauka side (mountainside) of Kamehameha Hwy.

• Each beehive has 40,000 - 60,000 bees.
• One bee in its lifetime produces 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey.
• Worker bees only live six weeks.
• Bees need to tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey!
• The beehives can produce up to 100 pounds of honey per year, however we always leave honey on the hives for the bees as it’s their food source. This is especially important during the rainy season (they can’t go out to forage or their wings get wet and they can't fly home).
• Honeybees have very distinct seasons here in Hawaiʻi. Winter is the rainy season, and the bees experience a dearth in nectar flow. Spring is when the colonies start to build up and we see our first blooms. It really isn’t until May when the bees can start enjoying a steady nectar flow; that usually peaks in August here on the North Shore of Oʻahu. Bees and beekeepers are very busy in summer—it’s swarm season! It’s all worth it come Fall when we can start harvesting that raw, golden honey.
• Most (worker) honeybees are female—they do all the work— nursing, foraging, guarding, and engineering honeycomb. It's a matriarchal society, hence the Queen Bee! Males (the drones) don't have a stinger; all they do is mate.
• There's only ONE queen bee in a hive. She can lay up to 2,500 eggs in a day and can live up to three years. Long live the Queen!