Holiday Crafts at Kēōkea Marketplace on Nov. 8

Keokea vantage to West Maui. Photo by Wendy Osher.

The inaugural Holiday Crafts at Kēōkea Marketplace event will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 8 and Dec. 13 at mile marker 17 on Kula Highway at Ka‘amana Street, a quarter-mile past Grandma’s Coffeehouse.

Homestead caterer Pikake Newhouse will prepare her sellout special pastele for the event.

The Christmastide venture will also offer seasonal gift items, stocking stuffers, and fresh produce and plants.

The nonprofit Kēōkea Homestead Farm Lots Association is hosting the the crafts event to culminate its yearlong second-Sunday-of-the-month open markets.

In the new year, the group will present quarterly open-market events from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Next year, Da Taste ofKēōkea will be held on April 23; a Father’s Day special is slated for June 19; the Kēōkea Ho‘olaule‘a is scheduled for Sept. 3, and the Holiday Crafts at Kēōkea Marketplace will be on Nov. 5.

For event information and vendor applications, contact Kalena Park at keokeamarketplace@gmail.com.

The Kēōkea Homestead Farm Lots Association represents Maui’s only Native Hawaiian agricultural homestead, encompassing 66 two-acre lots dedicated to sustainable, subsistence farming.