Wai`aha Farm has a long and noble history.  For many years it was the home to Ali’i (Hawaiian Chiefs).  Queen Emma’s summer palace was located on this site.  King Kamehameha IV had his private farm here where he grew native crops and experimented with new crops brought by westerners.  Over the last 150 years this farm commercially produced, taro, coffee, macadamia nuts, cotton and cattle.  It was also the home to Hawaii’s first sugar plantation and mill, remnants of which can still be seen.