HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - There’s a family-owned farm in Central Oahu where you can find local produce, native plants and workshops to find your green thumb.

Mari’s Garden is tucked away in the middle of Mililani neighborhood on Makapipipi Street.

Owner Fred Lau was already running a landscaping business and purchased 18 acres in 2008.

“I bought this property that used to belong to Watanabe Floral, and it was just overgrown with weeds,” Fred said. “I wanted to have a property in central Oahu where I could stage my landscape plants.”

“My eldest son graduated from college in 2010, and he wanted to raise food, so we ended up starting to grow lettuce,” Fred added.

“We started growing cucumbers, tomatoes, everything on the all the this produce that was crazy and that’s how Mari’s Garden s

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