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E Komo Mai-Welcome! Alani waiting for Bob. She is the most devoted!
Macadamias are in!
Why do our Macadamias cost $16/pound? Because they are worth it! Reasons: 1) Macadamias are not the easiest to grow (wild pigs are relentless and terrible pests) 2) Nor to process (hardest shell of all nuts) 3) and then ours are dehydrated (slowly) which is time consuming as it is done in small batches. Those are the reasons our fresh tasting dry-roasted (no oils) Macadamias are so superior to any others. You, our customers, tell us that all the time. Macadamias are more difficult to process than coffee. So much quality control involved! Here is a cute note I recently got from a CRNA who was given some by his employer... ."Thank you!!! The Mac nuts are awesome! People who worry about CRNA's getting hooked on fentanyl have never eaten those Mac nuts you send. What's that on my back.......oh no the Mac nut monkey!!!!! Mac nut anonymous here I come."
Mollie the border Collie loves to crack the Macadamias but we are trying to discourage her - we erected a gate so she can not get in to the Macadamia nut shed. I think she'd be toothless by old age if we let her crack all she wants. Our Macadamias are lightly salted, mostly whole, grown & carefully dried by Bob’s brother who lives about 2 hours away on his Macadamia Farm. Jeff Smith has figured out how to leave them with almost a sweet, outrageously delicious flavor. He dehydrates them slowly. They are never roasted.They are as natural as they could be with just a bit of salt. A comment about these Macadamias...."Most wonderful snack I had ever eaten. I couldn't believe how good those nuts were :)"
Ripe Macadamias Nuts You can tell they are ripe because they fall to the ground. Next, the husk dries and opens and you can see the Macadamia Nut inside. Grand sons help Bob pick nuts and everybody has lots of fun. Summer 2009 The Team......
It begins (and ends) with nut flinging into the bucket .
Jonah winds up, Ezra concentrates and even Grandpa Bob takes a shot
"Oh my! These things are awesome!" T.D.
Naturally
Crispy &
Crunchy FRESH out of this world. dehydrated s l o w l y, not roasted yes, unhusked & already shelled Macadamia Nuts Best You have ever had ! and if that wasn't a good enough reason
MACADAMIAS ARE GOOD FOR YOU! According to an article in our West Hawaii Today, "Recent scientific research ... shows that adding macadamia nuts or macadamia nut oil to the diet can actually lower total blood cholesterol, and most importantly, lower LDL (bad) cholesterol. Macadamia nuts and cooking oil are 80 percent monounsaturated fats, 6 percentage points higher than the other stuff." Adorable Pennsylvania who loves to be outside
Did you know Macadamias have the hardest shell of any nut? The Macadamia nut tree knows it is worth protecting its goodness. Macadamia Nuts It is their flavor which is the most magical. Do you Like cashews? These are their equal- I think even better.
NeoBobSmith, a bromeliad, is so beautiful and it is named for Bob who did the original cross.
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this cup Vacuum sealed Crispy Crunchy Macadamia Nuts and salt Pounder bag----$16 ($9.75 USPO or.... add to order for much less) "Macadamias from you guys are a taste of Hawaii that has me yearning to head for the airport. Handful of nuts, cup o' your Kona, and I'm seeing palms and hearing songbirds." D.V.
Sylvester is Pennsylvania's cute brother. He is trying to get me to notice him:)while I walked along. I love it when he tries these wooing tricks:) Pink nosed cutie. 
Our awesome Macadamia Nuts are.... all natural! Smithfarms macadamia nuts are simply GREAT We offer these yummy gems in vacuum sealed : pound bags for $16 plus shipping and handling
Crunchy & crispy & creamy & natural. The BEST! Wonderful as a snack or an hors d'oeuvre and healthy to boot! A small diversion as these animals below love our Macadamia trees:)
Jackson Chameleons so as an aside.............. Two healthy females. This female on the left is approximately 7.5 inches in just her body length and her tail, if it was stretched out is probably another 4 or 5 inches longer. The one on the right is smaller and younger. During the spring here, Jackson Chameleons are everywhere, breeding and birthing their young. Bob could find one every day,... until in late June and early July he couldn't find even one to show our grand daughters ! Bob looked everywhere and surmised that they were molting. That's a pretty vulnerable time. After nearly a month, this was the first one we saw.
very young Jackson Dave Gershman, our son in law, took these photos below of the chameleon on Bob
Despite its fierce look in the photo, these are docile creatures that blend into our green foliage all too easily. This male Jackson is nearly full grown. You can see wisps of a recent molt in these photos too. A female does not have those horns you can see projecting from this male Jackson Chameleon's forehead. and now.............. back to our Macadamia Nuts Some
of our most ardent Smithfarms' appreciators
are those who order these Macadamia NUTS. Wild pigs live in the rainforest just above our farm and sometimes it is a fight to see who gets the Macadamias! The wild pig's diet consists of avocados, macadamias, the inside of tree ferns, and whatever they can snarfle up from wet mud. When the pigs get too close to our house - we can see them from our dining room table, and if they go after the dogs, Bob has to call a halt and he humanely & permanently discourages them. 10/31/09-Bob just got one at 10:30 in the morning. It was small and fierce but charged me and Mollie the Border Collie. Nasty things!
Remember our Macadamias are dehydrated, all natural- premium stuff
about life-sized, uncracked macadamia nuts
wait a sec......one last interesting object
Even the shy Bufo marinus almost hiding under the macadamia nut leaves in the photo above, lives on our farm ---under a Macadamia Nut tree.. According to Honolulu Magazine, December, 1995, page 22. "C. E. Pemberton gives Paradise of the Pacific this account of how he single handedly introduced the toad for the Hawai'i Sugar Planters Association, in an attempt to control Hawai'i's spiraling insect population: 'In 1932 the writer collected 148 adult Bufo marinus in Puerto Rico and brought them to Hawai'i packed in boxes of excelsior. Part of this lot was sent by express...almost all arrived in good condition after the three weeks journey.' Within three years, these colonists had multiplied impressively - the HSPA" note: Dr Pemberton was a distant relative of mine.
SMITHFARMS is two miles up a winding 4 wheel drive road! We don't encourage visitors for a few reasons- it IS a 4 wheel drive road with serious private road liabilities, it IS our (only) house, we have often have a muddy, jumping dog, and if we are talking and walking with others, we aren't getting our work done. Hope you understand, so the map although accurate, is just for fun.
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