Kava and Family – Creating Unity through Ceremony
Aloha everyone! Recently, one of our customers, Joel, asked me a very interesting question. He was curious which kava product I would recommend as an addition to a tradition that his family took part in several times a year. His family gathers at a specific spot on a river, where they sit around a campfire and tell stories about ancestors and local legends in order to create a strong connection to each other and to the past. The family had decided to include kava in this ritual, in order to enhance bonding and communication! Of course, I recommended our traditional powdered kava root, since...
Read MoreWhy Isn’t Your Kava WS 1490 Certified?
CUSTOMER QUESTION: “The standard of highest quality is WS 1490. Is the quality of your product mentioned anywhere on the packaging? If not, why not?” MAKAIRA’S ANSWER: The power of pharmaceutical companies and the power of the press continues to amaze us here at Kona Kava Farm. WS 1490 is a pharmaceutical extract of Kava Kava, and in no way is a pure, powerful plant form of this natural root. It’s a patented form of a specific Kava extract that is owned by a pharmaceutical company. We do not offer pharmaceutical-owned patented versions of kava extracts, but only...
Read MoreDo Kava and Alcohol Combine?
For some reason, as kava drinking gets more popular in the United States, we find that we get asked the question about whether kava and alcohol mix more and more often! I’m not sure why, but we’ve now been asked enough that I decided to devote a post to discuss whether it might be dangerous as well as what the effects of mixing the two might be. First, I want to stress that we would never advocate mixing two drinks that have very noticeable effects on the body and mind. It’s not unlike asking if it’s a good idea to mix prescription medication with alcohol. I...
Read MoreVegan Chocolate and “Blooming”
Another question we get asked quite often is in relation to the sometimes grayish color of our vegan chocolate chips, properly called chocolate bloom, so I thought I’d write a quick post about it to ease our customers’ minds: Have you ever purchased a chocolate candy bar from the store and had it have a grayish chalky coating on it? If so, that’s something call “blooming” in the world of chocolate. Chocolate blooming is the most common problem you will encounter, but from the start, let me offer this consolation: blooming, no matter its form, is completely...
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 MoreDo You Ever Accept Visitors to Your Farm?
Aloha friends! Kona Kava Farm was in our family for generations, long before the United States entered our lands and dismantled our government, when we lived in harmony with Mother Nature, rich in cultural traditions that honored and respected the Earth. But, our farmhouse burned down several years ago, and for various reasons, we sold the property to someone who chose not to rebuild the farmhouse, or to continue using the land for farming. Below is the article we posted when we never dreamed we’d ever be without Kona Kava Farm. It’s not applicable anymore, but it’s a...
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