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Work is a family affair at Kunana Dairy
Award-winning dairy focuses on quality

Bees are buzzin', goats are bleatin' and crops are poppin' up all over at Kaua'i Kunana Dairy & Family Farm. The success the Wooton family — Bob, Louisa, Troy, Ryan, and Sarah — enjoys on their three acres "smack dab between Kilauea and Anahola, 4.5 miles either way," as Louisa likes to describe it, may be laid to the family's creativity and work ethic.

They've just been recognized for the talented farmers and value-added product makers they are. The micro-dairy, famed for its artisan goat-milk cheeses, won the 2010 Small Business Award titled "Kaua'i Home-Based Business Champion of the Year."

"We're able to provide a really good living for two families and two full-time employees," says Louisa, who, with her husband, Bob, laid the groundwork over a decade ago. "That's good, that a little 3-acre farm can provide a living for those families."
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Increasingly, people look to standards of quality in the purchases they make. The Wootons are Animal Welfare-approved and can use that in their marketing.

"We're also certified organic with the Hawai'i Organic Farmers Association, so we put that label on our produce," says Louisa.

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Goats become heroes in Kauai tour

Launched in 1999, Kauai Kunana Dairy is an outgrowth of the farm that Bob and Louisa Wooton started two decades earlier. They primarily grew tomatoes and greens back then. Today their family cultivates hundreds of varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs ranging from beets, basil and bananas to lesser-known tomatillos, kohlrabi and tat tsoi.

Guests can taste anything that catches their eye as they stroll through the grounds. Ryan Wooton and his wife Sarah explain the best ways to prepare them and also describe the sustainable practices that earned the company a Green Business Initiative Award from the Kauai Rotary Club last year.

"For instance, all of our mulch comes from tree and hedge trimmings around the farm," Wooton said. "We make 90 percent of our fertilizer out of mulch and goat and chicken manure. We no longer buy plastic bags to pack our customers' purchases at the farmers markets. Instead, we use recycled bags or sell reusable bags at our wholesale cost. We also reuse cardboard boxes as weed suppressants in the aisles of our gardens, where they eventually compost."

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