Meet theTeam!
Hojo Pou
Hojo is our Customer Care Agent! More commonly known as the “email guy”. You will most likely be talking to him if you have any questions or concerns! He is a self proclaimed genius and handles anything that has to do with the internet for Molokai Plumerias! He is also the Grandson of Dick Wheeler …
I wonder how he got the job?
Oz Wheeler
Oz is our highly trained security detail. Things can get pretty rough on the farm and we depend on him to keep things under control! Don’t worry if you come to visit us, he is very nice! Just don’t tell the bad guys…
Aome Wheeler
Aome is our Chief lei maker! Almost all the leis made and sent out by us have been done by these experienced hands. The farm would never be able to run without her! She is also the wife of Dick Wheeler and will have been married to him for 50 years this October 3, 2020!
Dick Wheeler
The owner and founder of Molokai Plumerias. Once a bee keeper, now a flower farmer, always a visionary! He and his wife Aome started the farm over 30 years ago and have been operating it ever since. He picks the flowers, hunts for cuttings, and packages all the shipments. He is pleased to share aloha with everyone through plumerias.
Our Story
Thanks to a beekeeping career on the mainland, I was offered a job managing Molokai Honey Co. We moved to Molokai in 1982. Our honey house ,where we extracted the honey, was on a ten acre property that at one time had been planted with plumerias. By the time we got there though the plumerias were nearly all dead from neglect and lack of proper watering. There was a small patch of maybe 40-50 surviving bushes -I hesitate to call them trees - but it was enough for a vision. In 1987, when my lifetime best friend called and said he had sold some California land and wondered what to do with all his money, I had an answer, “Let's buy the farm.” So we bought the land, and Molokai Plumerias was born.
It took many years of hard work to turn the property into what it is today-an orchard of thousands of plumeria trees. We also recreated the honey house into our flower packing and storage area downstairs, and built our home upstairs. We have walked to work now for over twenty-five years. I still pinch myself in disbelief and offer a prayer of thanks as I look out over acres of flowering trees. It's been a good life.
If you ever get to Molokai you really must stop and visit. You won't be disappointed.
- Dick Wheeler