Last year, Hawaii’s only food retail cooperative celebrated its 40th birthday. Founded in 1971 by a group of Honolulu residents who wanted access to high-quality, minimally processed, natural foods, Kokua Market has grown over the years and now operates a 4,400 square-foot retail space, with 3,500 member-owners, 43 employees and annual gross sales of $3.3 […]

A natural food retail cooperative selling local and organic products and promoting healthy, sustainable living in Hawaii. The mural in the photo above was painted by 808 Urban – representing the (_ka_) Mo`ili`ili ahupua`a—the Native Hawaiian mountains-to-ocean ecosystem in which Kokua Market resides.