Volcano Farmers Market

[StillHope]

I would like to get more information.
1.Where in Volcano?

I've never been there .Would like to have some near by street name to get the directions and mileage on line.

2.What days?

3.On the other thread Carey said it's over by 9 am on Sundays .


Sorry if there's another thread somewhere.With my internet speed
the search is extremely difficult.

[missydog1]

Hope, when you go to Volcano Village you will see how little there there ... it's on Sunday.
I'm sure someone will give you directions, but given the teeny size of Volcano, I'm guessing it would be a piece of cake.

To get to Volcano Village, take Hwy 11 and eventually you will see a highway sign for Volcano Village. It has an entrance to the highway on each end and it is all one street for the businesses. If you get to the Park entrance you have just passed it.

[StillHope]

Just googled it -86 miles both ways!

Cheaper to get shipped from CA!

[Hotzcatz]

Ayup, that's why it's called "the Big Island". We only go to town about once a week or once every two weeks if we can manage it. Start a garden, in the time it would take to drive to the farmer's market and back you could have half a dozen things sprouting already. Now is a good time for "winter" cool crops like manoa lettuce, peas, etc.

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[StillHope]

Thank you,Hotzcatz!
I did put some seeds in pots.
Need to buy more dirt.Dirt cheap -it's the wrong saying..

[dcl]

Try hydroponics in a bucket with a lid and holes cut out in it,in which you set small little containers with some soil and a seed in the middle, for tomatoes and lettuce, spinach ect... Pam Lamont had started many people out with this type of set up some time ago.

I have big buckets, so was able to set up about eight spots in each bucket. I think my tomatoes did better in just big pots with soil in them, but it could have been a difference in seeds used in each batch. It seems like seeds go bad faster here than other places I have lived.

[missydog1]

Hope, I don't know where you got 86 miles. It's only 45 miles.

[Carey]

Head to Volcano on Hwy 11
Turn north (right) on Wright Rd., after mm 26 (Keaau Bypass is mm 7 )
Go about 1/2 mile to the Cooper Center/Volcano Park
Sunday mornings
Very Very early to early
link to Fordors write up:
http://www.fodors.com/world/north-americ...19539.html
BTW: the write up has until 10 & the time we did try, we were there by 10 & it was way pau....

Found a better time link:
http://www.volcanogallery.com/volcano_farmers.htm

[asly]

Stillhope, if you get a chance, exploring the volcano area is worth a day trip, or more. Getting into the park is like 7 bucks or something, good for about a week, with lots of driving sight seeing and short day hikes. Oh, and a winery with wine tasting! So, if you set out on a Sunday, you might as well get an early start before traffic and hit the farmer's market, runs from like 7-9 or similar, as I said on another thread, you can eat a wonderful breakfast there and purchase goodies for lunch, also great assortment of plants, nuts and coffees, as well as jewlery and other crafts. We loved it. It is a beautiful up there. We also had one of the most memorable pastries there, made with an apple banana, caramel sauce and cooked inside a puff pastry - so good. We found our coffee supplier there, out of the Ka'u district, we love her coffee.

It wasn't apparently obvious where the market was just driving to the Volcano area. You do have to turn off into Volcano as directed by the sign. I think it was held at the community center. If unsure, stop at the little grocery store there and ask. Which in itself is a neat store.

Enjoy! You must do!

Yes, it took something like an hour to drive up there, but well worth the day trip.

Enjoy the day! Ann

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http://crazypineappledream.blogspot.com

[StillHope]

quote:

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Originally posted by KathyH

Hope, I don't know where you got 86 miles. It's only 45 miles.

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I said both ways.