Kauai Food Forest Tour: Exotic Island Dinner

Experience Kauai’s diverse and sustainable food culture on the Common Ground Walking Tour. Explore a regenerative food forest and enjoy a family-style meal showcasing the island’s abundance and flavors. 100% Island sourced ingredients. Relax in a beautiful tropical farm setting.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Common Ground Kauai - Join us as we explore Common Ground’s magnificent campus. The walking tour meanders through our regenerative food forest, designed by Director of Agroecology John Parziale, where he and his team explain its intricate and interconnected systems. We’ll experience the offerings of the land more deeply through a fruit tasting…
What's Included
  • Dinner
What's Not Included
  • Private transportation
Additional Information

A meal on Kauai should be distinctive, reflecting the island’s rich abundance, flavors, and cultures. This experience highlights the bounty of Kauai’s regenerative food forest, featuring a variety of exotic and delectable foods introduced to Hawai’i from around the world. Enjoy coffee, pineapple, tree tomato, kava, mamak’i, heart of palm, papaya,…

Location
4900 Kuawa Rd
Kuawa Road
Common Ground Kauai at the end of Kuawa Rd
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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N1819pvmegans
Feb 27, 2025
Delicious and educational - Sophie gave a great tour of the acre farm, very knowledgeable on their farming practices. I felt like I learned a lot. Saw plants and fruits growing that I’ve never thought about where they came from before. Chef’s dinner was delicious, and it was fun to taste the food we’d just seen growing.
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Elikenoah
Feb 22, 2025
A Highlight of Our Kaua’i Stay - From the walk to the Stone Dam to Sofia’s informative tour of the gardens & trees to the delicious & innovative dinner, the Common Ground experience was all that we had hoped and more!
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Bibisaidi
Feb 14, 2025
Walk and dine in paradise - Expert guide with deep knowledge and insight into earth friendly farming practices.Simply amazing! Learned so much & took loads of pictures. Dinner with every single ingredient from local (Hawaii) farms was amazingly tasty from salad to sorbet! And fresh eggs cooked to taste…had forgotten how good they are!
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Kanzashi
Feb 8, 2025
Vert special place - So wonderful to share a few hours with these truly passionate people at this very special place. Start with a walk to the Stone Dam which dates back to the early sugar plantation that once occupied this land in the 19 century. Enjoyed the 15 minute walk and beautiful setting. We returned to participate in the interpretive tour with Sophia who shared her extensive knowledge of regenerative farming and the broad range of trees and plants Common Ground have planted. Learned about the history of many of the plants and trees and their food and medicinal use. The evening ended with a delicious meal with food sourced entirely from Hawaii with much of it coming from Common Ground. These people have a vision and a passion for a sustainable Hawaii that needs to be supported. You will come away inspired!
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Lisa_b
Feb 2, 2025
Informative and fun - Since I'm a gardener myself, it's always fun to see how people grow things in other climates. The tour was informative and fun with beautiful scenery.
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Deanadc
Jan 30, 2025
Delicious, beautiful and educational - We had an amazing tour with a very talented tour guide at Lydgate Farms! It was really a delicious and educational highlight of our visit to Kaua’i. The farm is a gorgeous showcase of cacao, vanilla and honey with a focus on the sustainability practices employed by the farm. We were so impressed! The best part, of course, is the opportunity to taste their delicious chocolate and honey! I highly recommend this tour!
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273joanm
Jan 29, 2025
Different cool experience - We enjoyed the whole experience. It was interesting to see how the farm put nature in harmony! I learned a lot about the local plants and soil. Our guide Sophie was knowledgeable and friendly! We enjoyed the dinner that sourced every ingredient straight from the farm!
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Faraway331294
Jan 28, 2025
Common Ground is a MUST SEE experience! - I am a big fan of farm to table. My cousin, Dan Barber in NYC, was an initial proponent of Farm to Table, so I was curious about your experience. It did not disappoint. Our guide was passionate about his field and conveyed that to his guests. It was very informative and we all got a few pointers to take home with us to our respective gardens. We enjoyed the communal dining and enjoyed meeting the others at our table. Drinks and dinner were fabulous and what a satisfying feeling to know it was local, fresh from you farm! Common Ground is a must for anyone visiting Kauai! And we loved our hike to the waterfall. What a treat! I am a big fan! Thank you for a wonderful experience!
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Leslie
Jan 30, 2025
Common Ground tour and meal - We really enjoyed the tour, it was very informative. We were not, however, impressed with the meal. Could just be that our tastes are not quite bourgeois enough to have appreciated the dishes. Also, we did not recognize many of the ingredients as being on our tour, would like to have seen where they were sourced from.
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Sara_s
Jan 30, 2025
The tour is small and... - The tour is small and short, and the food is only okay. What they’re doing seems to be very noble, but they’re preachy about it. If the experience was cheaper, it would be 5 stars, but it wasn’t at the level of other tours nearby that cost the same and last longer, with more to do and see.
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