At a Sunday farmers' market in Makuu, you can buy everything from local papayas and rambutans to organic honey to handmade surfboards.

For instance, the report calls for a strategy that will allow both genetically modified crops and the continued production of organic honey, which requires no contact with pollen from genetically modified plants.

SCIENTIST B: Yes, this morning for breakfast . . . he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."

The market is also a good place to find cheese, especially fromage de brebis (traditionally eaten with cherry jam), wine (Uroulat and Cauhapé are names to look for), organic honey and preserved duck.

Honey Crisp: Made with organic honey (yellow label)

The Union: Equal amounts of apple and pear juices using authentic French Champagne yeast with organic honey and rose water.

Menus typically feature Big Island-grown and raised items such as avocado, goat cheese, red and yellow tomatoes, mushrooms, lobster, white organic honey, and baby abalone.

The remote back shelves are stacked with stray ingredients that were bought for a special recipe, one tablespoonful used and the rest left behind: pesto, cranberry chutney, dill weed, sun-dried tomatoes, organic honey.

Most of the shelves hold the company's lotions and potions - fragrances called "plant spirits," eye shadows named Kiwi and Eucalyptus and a weird-looking organic honey that's supposed to calm a cold.

Forest Fruits Ltd. has been operating in Mwinilunga since 1997, successfully working with over 5000 beekeepers in the region to export organic honey to the European market.