Rain or shine, you can find Preci selling a variety of produce, colorful and fresh, heaped up on her market table every Sunday morning at the Pahoa Farmer’s Market behind Luquin’s restaurant. Finding time to sit down with her to ask her these interview questions was not an easy task. Preci has a full time job at Pahoa School during the week, she is a part-time farmer and sells at the farmers market on Sunday.
If I get to the market at 6:30 am, I’d find Preci unpacking heavy produce boxes from her truck to the market stall, setting up her tables and arranging the produce as a beautiful display so her customers have an easy time seeing what’s available to make their selections.
Market customers come in waves. In the early morning when the market place comes alive with vendors and customers, around 7:00 am, a stream of customers make their way to Preci’s vegetable stand to pick up their regular weekly selection of fruits and vegetables and peruse the table to see ‘what’s new this week’. Later in the morning things slow down a bit, there’s no one around then a few minutes later Preci is swamped again, being asked questions, weighing and wrapping up produce, collecting monies, and recording sales. By the end of the sales day…around 1:00 pm….Preci eventually gets to sit …eat some lunch …talk story with the other vendors then start the packing up ritual.
Early last December, before she packed up that day, Preci and I had a chance to sit for awhile to have this interview.
She said her parents made their living as farmer’s in the Philippines. They had chickens, pigs, goats, and grew rice and tobacco. So Preci first started growing things as a child along with her family. When she came to Hawaii as an adult, she and her husband continued to farm a few things ( about 10% of their income), not on a full time scale as her parents did.
Presently she grows wing beans, long beans, squash, pumpkin and papaya, which she sells at her market booth. The other produce she sells comes from other farmers on the island and from other sources. She grows her vegetables with a little fertilizer but no herbicide or pesticides are sprayed, because she said, “because we eat it.”
The hardest part is controlling the weeds.
When I asked her why she still farms, because both her husband and she have jobs in the school system and in construction, she said she likes to raise some of her own vegetables and have a little extra income from them. Mostly she sells at the market but also small restaurants buy produce from her, thereby supporting her
farming endeavors.
In wrapping up this interview, l asked this last question: “Do you consider yourself a farmer and what is your definition of a farmer.” She replied, “Yes, because I grow things to eat, I am a backyard gardener, growing things in co-operative ways like in the Philipinnes. A farmer is someone who tends to a crop.”
Thanks for doing all that you do and for growing food Preci! Aloha 
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