Taste of the Hawaiian Range

From left: Folks from Honaunau’s Hawaii Tart Company — Matt Ziltch, Martha Brahm and Laura Bocon — offer samples and sales of mac nut tarts during Taste’s recent daytime agriculture festival in Waimea.

4-H member Kamuela Andrade of Honokaa helps Will Contreras of Waikoloa get acquainted with a baby goat in the livestock tent.

From left: Milking a replica of a Holstein cow at Taste of the Hawaiian Range are Waikoloa youth Ivy and Natalia Glogovsky and Will and Lillian Contreras. (Photos by Fern Galevek/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Leo Suzuki of Hilo is all smiles while riding the pint-sized tractor in the Keiki Farm Hands tent at Taste of the Hawaiian Range.

The evening culinary gala at Taste of the Hawaiian Range featured cuisine using pasture raised meats and produce, including braised beef forequarter by the Waikoloa Marriott’s Hawaii Calls Restaurant & Lounge.

Photos by Fern Gavelek, community contributor