Ocean Grace Farms, LLC.

10/02/2026

For years, we’ve been building healthy soil at Ocean Grace Farms with Korean Natural Farming methods. Back in 2020, with Logan’s help, we made an IMO pile here on the farm and turned it into liquid IMO tea to broadcast across our cacao orchard. We’ve used it all up—wow, was that really six years ago?

Marty has been wanting to try a Johnson–Su bioreactor, so now we’re giving it a go. Developed by Dr. David Johnson and Hui-Chun Su Johnson, this method creates a biologically rich, fungal-dominant compost that can be made into a soil inoculant.

We filled ours with chipped farm branches and old leaf litter, soaking them in water inoculated with Suståne—a turkey-manure-based fertilizer our cacao trees love. Now we wait about nine months to a year. When it’s ready, we’ll make an extract to spray onto the orchard and support our living soil. 🌱

Have you tried a Johnson–Su bioreactor?

Learn more, watch the build video, and find the manual: regenerationinternational.org/bioreactor

09/25/2026

The calm before the next storm.

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

As Hawaiʻi Island prepares for Nolo, we’re praying for everyone across Hawaiʻi.

08/27/2026

Counting our blessings after Hurricane Lala and tending to what remains. 🌱

As we continue cleaning up storm debris, it feels especially good to nurture the things we’ve implemented since the Kona Low that are still growing with us. We’re tending the garden, weeding our perennial peanut hillside, watering the plumbago hedge that stood strong through the winds, and trying our first pulley trellis system on the greenhouse tomatoes.

Perennial peanut video + blog post coming soon with tips from Raven & Isaac Perennial Peanut Groundcover and their bulk stolon planting method. 🌿 What an absolute gift and joy it was to work alongside them and learn from them on July 21st bulk planting our Hillside. We are now 1 of 3 months into establishment.

08/17/2026

After the storm comes
the sacred work of
beginning again.

….

On August 15, Hurricane Lala brought extremely high winds across Ocean Grace Farms, leaving severe damage throughout the property. Several large trees were uprooted, major branches were broken, and much of the farm was battered by the storm.

The damage from Lala is more severe than what we experienced during the March Kona Low, and once again, we find ourselves entering another season of recovery.

We are deeply grateful that our family and all of our animals, including our new baby chickens 🐓🐔 are safe. We are also holding the rest of our island community as everyone begins to assess the damage and recover.

There is a yin and yang to farming and to life: growth and loss, planting and pruning, abundance and rebuilding. We can hold gratitude for what was spared while still grieving what was lost.

That feels especially true for our family right now. As the farm enters another season of recovery, Marty is entering a season of healing of his own. He will be heading to Oʻahu this week in preparation for back surgery next week.

So for now, our focus is simple: take care of our family, take care of the farm, and take each part of the recovery as it comes.

We’re grateful to be together, grateful our home is safe, and especially grateful to have power as so many across the island begin to recover.

07/08/2026

Happy World Chocolate Day from Ocean Grace Farms! 🍫🌿

Did you know World Chocolate Day is celebrated every year on July 7th? The story often shared is that this date honors the time when chocolate was first introduced to Europe around the 1500s.

But the real history of chocolate goes back much further than that.

Long before chocolate bars, hot cocoa, and truffles, cacao was grown and honored by Indigenous cultures in the Americas. Cacao was used in drinks, ceremonies, and even as something valuable enough to trade. Chocolate didn’t begin in a candy wrapper… it began as a tree, a pod, a seed, and a sacred crop.

And that is what makes this day so special to us.

Here on our small family farm in Kona, we get to experience chocolate at the very beginning of its story — from caring for cacao trees, watching flowers turn into pods, harvesting, fermenting, drying, and learning how much love and patience goes into every single bean.

So today, we’re not just celebrating chocolate.

We’re celebrating the farmers.
The trees.
The land.
The hands that harvest.
The history.
The culture.
The long journey from cacao pod to chocolate bar.

Happy World Chocolate Day from our ʻohana to yours. May your day be filled with something sweet and maybe a little extra appreciation for where chocolate truly comes from. 🤎🌱

07/04/2026

A Decade of Quality: Award-Winning Beans and Finally Chocolate

This story feels extra meaningful to our family. It shares Marty’s founding focus on quality, the team and expert guidance that helped shape Ocean Grace Farms over the past decade, our 2026 Best Cacao Bean award at the Big Island Chocolate Festival, and our independent heavy metals test results for our 70% dark chocolate bar.

Quality begins long before chocolate becomes a bar. It begins in the soil, in the orchard, in fermentation, drying, aging, roasting, and all the careful steps in between.

As we share in the article: “Every step reminds us that chocolate is not rushed into being.”

Read Full Article Here:

Marty Mazzanti’s founding commitment to quality helped shape Ocean Grace Farms into Hawaiʻi Island’s 2026 Best Cacao Bean at this years Big Island Chocolate Festival.

06/27/2026

UPDATE!☀️ Summer Garden Project 2026: The 5:30 AM Farm Crew 🌱☀️

Tutu’s morning alarm clock today was not a rooster… it was the sound of Olivia and Reno coming up from the farm at 5:30 AM, chatting away after watering their plants in the nursery.

The funny part? These two stayed up way too late last night after we went to sleep. But when morning came, they chose to head outside and care for their garden.

That may sound small, but for our family, it feels like a milestone.

This summer, we want to plant more than seeds. We want to plant joy in gardening for our family.

On June 15th, we started our summer garden project with sunflowers, melons, and pumpkins. On June 20th, we added heirloom tomato varieties hand-selected by Nunu, along with herbs, squash, cucumbers, beets, and soy.

Little by little, morning by morning, we have been inviting the kids into the rhythm of farm life: water the plants, check the nursery, notice what is growing, care for what you planted. AND YES - devices are locked in a box until afternoon as we set this rhythm.

And today, they did it on their own.

No reminder.
No arguing.
No “do we have to?”

Just two kids, heading down to water their plants before the day even started.

This is the kind of growth we were hoping for. Not just in the garden, but in them.

Summer Garden Project 2026 is officially sprouting. 🌻🍉🎃🍅

06/22/2026

A Note from Marty on Fathers Day

There was a scene in one of the Batman movies where they showed the scene where Batman’s parents were murdered when leaving the opera—the family butler assumed the position of guide and confidant to the young Batman, kind of a father type. And when Batman was in despair, the butler said to him, ‘You are all that is left of your father.’

I feel that about my father and when I look at my kids and my grandkids, I can see that someday they will be all that is left of me. And for me that is not a sad thought infused with sadness—it’s a source of joy because I cannot imagine a greater legacy than that.

My hope is that I have memorable shared experiences with my children, including grandchildren, that those stories are so much a part of them, that they are repeated again and again and that I live on through those stories.

The Hawaiian’s had it right when they created the phrase, ‘Let’s talk story.’
It’s the best way to keep our loved ones alive.”

— Martin Mazzanti

06/19/2026

From storm recovery to new growth 🌱

Since the March 2026 Kona Low, our little orchard has been teaching us a lot. We’ve been recovering, grafting, planting, dry aging cacao beans, and preparing our kitchen for chocolate making.

Our next major harvest season is predicted for December through March, and while the storm was hard, we are grateful for the lessons it brought.

Mahalo, Kona Low … we learned, we grew, and we’re moving forward with hope into our best season yet. 🤎

06/18/2026

Rooted in Grace: Farm Flashbacks

Throwback to 2018 — little Olivia Grace helping plant UH3 cacao seedlings, which were recommended by experts at the time.

Our very first field was planted with Ecuadorian Nacional cacao. The pods were flown in from overseas, and we planted the seeds ourselves. Back then, we planted seedlings first and grafted them later in the field. Today, experts recommend planting grafted trees from the start, and we were recently told that UH3 is no longer one of the preferred cacao varieties for Hawaiʻi.

It is a sweet reminder that Hawaiʻi’s cacao industry is still young, still learning, and still growing. Farmers, researchers, and cacao experts continue to discover what works best in our unique island climates, soils, and growing conditions — and Ocean Grace Farms has been part of that learning journey.

A lot has changed since this photo, but the heart of our farm is still the same: family, dirty hands, caring for the land, and growing with grace.

And honestly, this tiny farm helper holding a cacao pod almost as big as her arm will always be one of our favorite parts of the story. 🤎