Board Member & Membership Chair, Synnora Regehr is a small scale poultry farmer raising chickens for companionship (silkies and polish), meat (cornish cross and heritage dual purpose) and eggs. With too many breeds to list, she specializes in creating a rich variety of colored organically fed eggs from pasture raised hens. She also raises jumbo Japanese quail, rabbits, and ducks for meat, and does it all on a small country lot on the westside of O’ahu. You can imagine how much work it is to keep it all working well. She is a huge advocate for creating food security.

We live on islands and as we all know, when the ships don’t make it here on time or pandemics happen, we see how quickly supplies dwindle. Hawai’i once supported a population not much smaller than we have today. We can get closer to that again by being efficient and utilizing garden spaces better. She has three super awesome kids who help her with everything. Her son just turned 18 and is a seasonal wildland firefighter in WA in the summer and a lifeguard the rest of the year. He also helps her care for the birds and build the mobile tractors. Her middle daughter is 16 and her involvement is using my eggs in her baking. Her youngest daughter is 9 and a total bird addict like her mom. Synnoraʻs non-farming hobbies are scuba diving, picking up other people’s litter and her dogs (2 rottweilers and a corgi). She is happy to help with any questions about backyard homesteading, lessons learned, quail, duck, meat and egg laying chickens.