Originally Posted by
miked
I was stationed on Oahu for about 9 1/2 years. Which island are you going to live on? I found other ways of making extra money on the island you may be interested in. Let me know where you end up and if you are curious about the other avocations. Shaka Bra, Mike
Oahu. Up by Waimea Bay. My Father is Hawaiian and owns a house up Pupukea. He is Ret. LTC. US Army. He retired at Schofield Barracks, 1975. I've got big family on the islands. I'll be joining into an established business with one of my uncles and my brother. Farming coconuts, mango, papaya, taro, breadfruit, lemongrass, cassava, etc. The two main ideas are Coconut Oil, which is a hot commodity right now, and Biodiesel. My uncle has over 250 acres of land he farms at Dillingham Ranch Lodge, over 500 acres on the island of Kauai, and just landed a contract for almost 800 acres as a preliminary test site on Maui with the potential for 176,000 acres more. That's correct....176 Thousand Acres.... The Sugar Plantation on Maui has to change course because the EPA has come down on them for the burn tactics they use when harvesting sugar cane. They want to move out of sugar cane and need someone who has experience with island agriculture so they called on my uncle who has been farming the islands for over 30 years and knows his stuff. The partnership between Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company and our family could potentially be quite lucrative.
What other ways were you into for making that extra money?
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