In the News
Grove Farm-AWWA-Nov-2008Grove Farm's Rainwater Harvesting and Water Treatment System Earns GE Ecomagination Award
- American Water Works Association | November 2008
- The Honolulu Star Bulletin | September 20, 2008
- The Honolulu Advertiser | September 19, 2008
- PR-inside.com | September 19, 2008
- ariva.de | September 19, 2008
Lawsuit against Case, Grove Farm dismissed
- The Honolulu Star Bulletin | September 18, 2008
- The Honolulu Advertiser | September 18, 2008
- The Garden Island | September 18, 2008
Lihu'e makes NatGeo list
August 13, 2008 | The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto
For Kaua'i residents, Lihu'e is where many of us work, shop or catch a movie. But for National Geographic Adventure readers, Lihu'e's about to become one of the nation's great adventure towns.
The Garden Isle's county seat was the only Hawai'i destination to make the magazine's top 50 burgeoning, outdoor-oriented places to live and play, in the September edition currently on newsstands.
Environment steers Grove Farm parking lot construction
February 1, 2008 | The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto
PUHI - A team from R Electric team wasn't deterred by cloudy weather while installing two solar-powered lighting fixtures at the Grove Farm employee parking lot yesterday.
Nene spread wings and take flight
June 13, 2007 | The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto
KAPAʻIA - "This is a warm and fuzzy day," Al Silva, wildlife technician for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, said yesterday as 11 endangered state birds took their first flight. About six weeks ago, 11 nene goslings were introduced to their new habitat deep in the valleys of Kapaʻia.
Errors kill Kauai yearbook but uproar might revive it
June 12, 2007 | The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Tom Finnegan
Piecing together a public beautification project
May 24, 2007 | The Garden Island, Keya Keita
A wall that designates a planned housing project is not normally anything that would cause a second look. "Long, solid and stable" would adequately describe most. But in the case of Grove Farm's new subdivision off of Nohou Street behind Costco, something beautiful is happening to the long, solid and stable wall - by the hands of O'ahu artist Leah Kilpatrick Rigg. Some 15 mosaic panels highlighting Kaua'i's unique plants and flowers are currently in the last stages of installation, completing a year-long process of design, fabrication, preparation and installation. Co.
Students learn language of eco-restoration
April 21, 2007 | The Garden Island, Keya Keita
'ILIAHI - Last week 300 students from Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School participated in a joint eco-restoration project sponsored by the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Grove Farm Land and Development Co.
Students' environmental film rewarded with grant
January 28, 2007 | The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto
Tresler joins Grove Farm
December 13, 2006 | The Garden Island
Michael Tresler, the departing Kaua'i County finance director, will become a vice president at Grove Farm in January, company officials said yesterday.
He will oversee property management and renewable energy initiatives for the sugar plantation-turned-development company, which owns about 40,000 acres of Kaua'i land.
Local Industry
December 2, 2006 | The Garden Island, Charlotte Woolard
Warren Haruki is increasing Grove Farm's focus on positive economic growth while enhancing its land and water resources to meet Kaua'i's housing needs and to promote diversified agriculture.
Grove Farm wins first of several lawsuits
November 26, 2006 | The Garden Island, Amanda C. Gregg
Grove Farm prevailed in all aspects of a month-long civil trial that ended yesterday afternoon.
Jury rejects lawsuit over Grove Farm sale
November 21, 2006 | The Honolulu Starbulletin, Tom Finnegan
LIHUE » There was nothing wrong with the 2001 sale of the family-owned Grove Farm Co. to AOL founder Steve Case, according to a jury verdict reached yesterday.
After a four-week trial, jurors took only five hours to clear the five former board members of Grove Farm and the company of any wrongdoing in the $26 million sale, which pitted former shareholders and, at one point, cousins against each other. Former Grove Farm shareholder Michael Sheehan had sued the company and the board, as well as Case's Alps Acquisition Co., saying the board members had given Case a sweetheart deal.
Grove Farm names new CEO
February 2005 | Pacific Business News
Warren H. Haruki, a longtime executive with GTE Hawaiian Tel and Verizon Hawaii, has been named president and chief executive officer of Grove Farm Co. of Kaua'i.
