The Love of Nature – Herbal Aphrodisiacs
Aloha everyone! One of the many perks that comes along with running a kava farm on a beautiful, vibrant island paradise is that I never have to worry about what sorts of Valentine’s Day gifts I should give out. For whatever reason (perhaps because the warmth of the tropical environment promotes growth, connection and love in all things), most of the products that we provide at Kona Kava Farm are aphrodisiacs in some sense of the word. And what could be a better Valentine’s Day present than a selection of lovely and strong aphrodisiacs that will also help to make body and mind...
Read MoreHot Kava Tea?
Aloha everyone! Ever since I was a child, I have been drinking kava cold. Traditionally, as you may know, kava is prepared by soaking the fresh or dried root matter in cold water and straining out the plant matter when the water turns cloudy. As I got older, I began to experiment with many different ways of preparing kava – combining it with coconut milk, adding in honey and lime juice, even making kava smoothies with banana and cacao nibs, but I always thought I had to prepare these beverages cold to make them effective. It is widely published that kavalactones, the active alkaloids...
Read MoreKava Recipes
Aloha! A few months ago I posted about a kava themed dinner party that I attended! We were treated to amazing delicacies such as kava-seared tuna and kava ice cream. So far, I haven’t been able to persuade my friend to give me those particular recipes to post up here for you all, but that dinner made me think that it might be nice to share some of my personal favorite kava recipes, as well as some of the great kava drink recipes we have up on our website! Since it is so hard to obtain fresh kava root outside of the areas where the plant grows, I won’t post any recipes that use...
Read MoreDo You Use Sugar In Your Kava?
The above is a question we get quite often, so I thought I’d make a post about it! In short, IF we use sugar at all, we only use organic ECJ (Evaporated Cane Juice) – very different from the commercial white sugar. While both are the same sucrose molecule, the difference in composition between the two is that Evaporated Cane Juice has far less processing and contains many more nutrients in it. Our own brand of evaporated cane juice (ECJ) even has slightly more vitamin A, C, copper, potassium and calcium (in a 100 gram sample) than even regular ECJ because the small farm in...
Read MoreOrganic Goodness: Chocolate & Kava
Aloha! I recently discovered an interesting candy maker, specifically a chocolatier – someone whose professional focus is making handmade, specialty chocolate; Would that make me a “Kavatier” then? Hehe! What caught my eye about this particular chocolatier from Idaho (a state located in the northern Rocky Mountain region of the mainland), is that she developed a chocolate made with kava – in Idaho of all places! This chocolatier was inspired to make kava chocolate by a client who owned a kava hut in Hawaii that commissioned her to brew up an original recipe of...
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