Hole in the Mountain Farm

UPDATE: Now you can buy it online.

Several months ago I ordered Sugarloaf Pineapples from the Hole in the Mountain farm. Today I was fortunate to get to visit the farm and meet the farmers, Jude and Paul, and see their spread. They grow Sugarloaf Pineapples (and no other pineapples, "that other stuff" as Jude refers to the pineapple you know), rambutan, longan, mango, and have some plumeria as well.

Jude has an encyclopedic knowledge of pineapple and told me all about its lifecycle and the challenges of growing them, in particular, getting them to ripen steadily year round. Below you can see some of the developing stages of the plant (I won't attempt to repeat the detailed lecture I heard).

Sugarloaf pineapple is something special: sweet, low acid, nearly white colored, and very tender not fibrous, you can eat the core. It's a real treat, worth going out of the way for. However, it does make it hard to appreciate regular pineapple once you have had Sugarloaf.

More on Kauai pineapple here.