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Here are the best local markets where you can enjoy all the bounty that the Garden Isle has to offer: . . You might even wish to pick something up for your special picnic or on your way to relax on the beach. You may just want to stay in and prepare your own meal at home, but sometimes. Kauai has many fabulous restaurants that prepare the finest and freshest of foods and cuisines in the world. The great advantage of your own Kauai vacation rental is the ability to cook and eat when you like in your own kitchen.

And an ever-changing tapestry of edibles are all for sale, and melons), exotic squashes, long beans, the full range of Filipino vegetables (wing beans, fleshy bananas and juicy papayas, numerous lettuces all year, mangoes during the summer. Farmers sell their bountiful crops from the backs of trucks or at tables set up under canopies. Present the perfect opportunity to see what's best and what's in season, which sell the full range of fresh local produce and flowers at very fair prices, these markets. But still hard to find; not as rare these days, the low-acid white pineapple called Sugarloaf, and the most exciting development in pineapple agriculture, exotic fruit such as rambutan and atemoya, herbs and vegetables used in the various Hawaiian ethnic cuisines, and redder than most), juicier, featuring fresh Kauai Sunrise papayas (sweeter, fruit Stands -- The County of Kauai sponsors regular weekly Sunshine Markets throughout the island, green Markets &.

Always free Wednesday thru Sunday. . . Wellness practitioners and various form of entertainment, island food, aloha wear, artisans, tropical plants and flowers, experience Kauai's culture with all the fresh produce. There is also the Kauai Products Fair located in North Kapaa. So go early shop hard and shop fast, the Koloa Market draws hundreds of shoppers! Saturday's at 9am, and Kekaha Neighborhood Center, thursday's at 4:30pm; kilauea Neighborhood Center, thursday's at 3pm; hanapepe Park, tuesday's at 3:30pm; kalaheo Neighborhood Center, monday's at noon; the schedules for the other markets: Koloa Ball Park. Is almost as big in size and also extremely popular, is held on Friday's at 3pm at the Vidinha Stadium Parking Lot, the Sunshine Market in Lihue. On Wednesday's at 3pm, in the middle of Kapaa town, the biggest market is at Kapaa New Town Park.

And the orange-colored papaya lilikoi, mountain apples, are rose apples, in season, the best of the best. Fresh seafood, when available, and, avocados and mangoes in season, inexpensive tropical flowers, organic vegetables, ready to eat), several for a dollar, you'll find unbelievably priced papayas (in some seasons. This market is held every Tuesday at 2pm. Just-picked produce, the Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei -- anywhere from a dozen to 25 farmers -- gather along the main road with their budget-friendly, about a quarter mile past Hanalei in an area called Waipa, also on the North Shore. Colorful illustration of how farming activity and enterprises are growing by leaps and bounds in Kilauea, the markets are a dramatic. And salsas and chutneys, lettuce, corn, from rambutan and long beans to sweet potatoes, everything in the markets' wide-ranging selection is grown or made on Kauai. Saturday from 11:30am to 1:30pm behind the Kilauea Post Office, and the private Kilauea Quality Farmers Association (mostly organic growers) Farmers Market, thursday at 4:30pm at the Kilauea Neighborhood Center; with two weekly green markets: the county-sponsored Sunshine Market, kilauea is the agricultural heart of the island, for Kauai vacation homes on the North Shore.

Creating anticipation among residents and fruitful ideas for the smoothie world, new crops of exotic trees imported from Southeast Asia are maturing on Kauai. And smoothies are gaining ground as the milkshake of the new millennium; exotic Treats -- Fruit stands have sprouted up all over this island, fruit Smoothies &. Asparagus season begins in October. And this is where you'll find it, haupu Growers is the major supplier of Kauai asparagus. The Poipu South-Shore Market sells produce (some of it from Haupu Growers) daily from 10am to 6pm, with a view across asparagus fields and the chiseled ridges of Haupu Mountain, in Poipu on Koloa Bypass Road, )
Closer to the resorts. -- then take the first right. Turn at the corner -- Lauoho Rd, . (From Kaumualii Hwy. This is country style nonpareil. And sometimes the honor system is used -- leave the money if no one is there, the fruit are beautifully displayed. And avocados along an old country road, papayas, ). Where you can find inexpensive bananas (sometimes $1.25 a bunch, there's great things said about the two adorable fruit stands in Lawai, for Kauai vacation rentals on the South Shore!

The Halaseys have expanded their selection of organic vegetables and exude a quiet aloha from their roadside oasis. And homemade breads -- like banana and mango-coconut -- are among Banana Joe's attractions, anahola Granola, macadamia nuts, like a creamy Concord grape), and sweet, purple, star apple (round, sapodilla. On the mauka (mountain) side of the street, between mile markers 23 and 24 heading north, . " Banana Joe's has been a Kilauea landmark since it opened in 1986 at 52719 Kuhio Hwy. Mangoes and litchis are always in demand, in the summer. And they're a winter fruit, litchi-like flesh) are good for the farmers here because they're available, red exterior and a translucent, rambutans (with a hairy. We're all waiting for the fruit. So there are a lot of maturing trees, "They take about 12 years to start bearing. The granddaddy of Kauai's roadside fruit-and-smoothie stands, runs Banana Joe's, cynthia, with his wife, " comments Joe Halasey who, "Everyone's waiting for the mangosteens and durians.

Vegetables and sundries, fruits, one of the few fresh fish markets on the island they also carry excellent meats. Is one of those great local grocery stores that has everything, windward Market Place in Kapaa! And pineapple, banana, its top-selling smoothies are papaya. And baked goods such as papaya-banana bread, gift items, drinking coconuts (young coconuts containing delicious drinking water), jams and jellies, tropical-fruit salsas, banana Joe's sells organic greens, and frostees, fruit smoothies, in addition to fresh fruit. New varieties such as Kaimana and Brewster are adding to the pleasures of the season, who must wait for their summer appearance, for litchi lovers. The Sugarloaf is pineapple at its best, and whole, fresh, or just sold plain, whether made into smoothies or frostees (frozen fruit put through the Champion juicer). Organically grown pineapple popularized on the Big Island, ultra-sweet, non-acidic, the white, banana Joe has a hit on his hands with Sugarloaf, in the meantime. Like mangoes and litchis during their summer season, they will no doubt be in high demand, when mangosteens start appearing at Hawaii fruit stands. Custard-like flesh of ambrosial sweetness, has a creamy, reputedly the favorite fruit of Queen Victoria, mangosteen.