#Ulupalakua Ranch

To maintain reliable service, Hawaiian Electric crews will be performing work along Piʻilani-Kula Highway near ʻUlupalakua Ranch Road at both intersections between mile markers 15 and 17 in Upcountry Maui on Tuesday, May 19, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

As of 4 p.m. on Friday, water service has been restored to the Upper Kula area following water main breaks caused by the recent kona storm.

ʻUlupalakua Ranch welcomes the Maui community to join in the holiday spirit this Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Second Annual Christmas in the Country—a festive, family-friendly celebration in the field behind the ʻUlupalakua Ranch Store from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Over the holidays, ʻUlupalakua Ranch hosted over 2,000 community members for a full day of live music, kids activities, ono food, and shopping with local vendors. Keiki enjoyed taking photos with Santa, playing in bounce houses and participating in the country petting zoo.

ʻUlupalakua Ranch reminds community members to mark their calendars for a day filled with ono food, photos with Santa and holiday shopping among local vendors at its Christmas in the Country festival, a full day of festivities on Saturday, Dec. 14.

A Maui Economic Opportunity-led effort to collect long-sleeve shirts for farmworkers to protect them from pesticide and heat exposure netted 257 shirts from March 24 to 31 as part of an Association of Farmworker Opportunity Program national drive.

Hawaiian Electric and developer Innergex Renewable Energy have terminated an agreement for a planned grid-scale solar and battery storage project in South Maui. According to HECO, the project was hit with lengthy delays resulting from the developer’s legal challenges and pandemic-related cost and supply-chain issues. Of five solar projects approved on Maui since 2018, only one is being built.

ʻUlupalakua Ranch on Maui had its lowest May rainfall total since 2012 according to the latest Monthly Precipitation Summary from the National Weather Service.

Media mogul and billionaire Oprah Winfrey recently purchased about 870 acres of Kula agricultural land for nearly $6.6 million in recent months, adding to hundreds of acres of real estate she already owns in Kula and in Hana. Winfrey bought four parcels total, according to sales deeds.

Jeff Peterson’s latest album of original slack-key songs, Mele Nahenahe, earned him two Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards last week, bringing his total Nā Hōkū award count to 13, in addition to two Grammy Awards.

Innergex, a renewable energy developer based in Canada, has plans to build and operate the 15-megawatt solar array with a 60-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system on approximately 200 acres leased from ‘Ulupalakua Ranch, mauka of Pi‘ilani Highway in Kīhei. The project plans to utilize 150 acres of fallow grazing land for the project.

This year’s winners are “Member of the Year,” Heidi Watanabe; “Farm Family of the Year,” the Hegele Family; and Mike Lyons Award, Hawaiian Electric Company.

Planned to be online in 2023, Paeahu Solar is capable of powering about 6,900 Maui homes per year. Over the lifetime of the project, it can replace the use of 1.3 million barrels of liquid fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 530,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Maui Cattle Company, a local business founded in 2002, hosts their third drive-up sale from 8 a.m. to noon on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 at their facility located at 106 South Kāne Street (between Kahului Foodland and Sysco) in Kahului.

Seven of the 11 inductees to the 2019 Paniolo Hall of Fame are tied to cattle ranches in Maui County that include: Haleakalā Ranch, Molokaʻi Ranch, Maui Cattle Company, ʻUlupalakua Ranch, Kaonoulu Ranch and Kaupō Ranch.

Why are windmills in Kahikinui being dismantled and shipped off-island?

The free event will feature the blessing and lighting of the holiday tree, holiday movie under the stars and Santa

ʻUlupalakua Ranch’s re-dedication of valuable grazing lands over to native forest restoration at Auwahi, Maui without compensation is remarkable.

MauiWine is hosting its third annual Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 10, with music, food, keiki crafts and an exclusive wine tasting.

MauiWine at ‘Ulupalakua invites locals to stop by during Drink Local Wine week for complimentary tastings, kama‘āina deals and more!