The Naked Cow Dairy
We met Sabrina St. Martin and Victoria Hauger at Haleʻiwa Farmers’ Market. Victoria offered us some lavender-flavored butter and we wanted to learn more.
Sabrina St. Martin came to Hawaiʻi four years ago to help her sister who is the owner of Oʻahu’s last dairy farm, the Naked Cow Dairy. The farm in Waiʻanae used to have twenty thousand cows and the milk was sold to Meadow Gold Dairies. Today there are only twenty cows left and the dairy products are sold in a boutique. A local favorite is butter flavored with fine local ingredients: sea salt, herbs, garlic, coconut, fresh pineapple, and even lavender. The only non-local product used in the farm is the grass, which has to be imported from the mainland.
When Sabrina started in the dairy business, people thought she was crazy. Coming from New Orleans, Louisiana, Sabrina finds Hawaiʻi unique because people are very supportive of local and sustainable agriculture. With an increased awareness for the importance of eating local, her business is now flourishing. Her dream is to expand the farm, have more cows and buy three hundred acres on the North Shore for more pasture.
Her favorite place in the island is the Haleʻiwa Farmers’ Market where she enjoys meeting customers, colleagues and friends. You can taste the flavored butters and even Maui’s beef burgers at her stand in farmers markets at Haleʻiwa, KCC, Kailua and Waiʻanae.
Thank you Sabrina and Victoria for sharing your aloha with us!
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