Any questions or comments, send them to hisheepandgoat@gmail.com or to Thema Black at bsheep234@yahoo.com
The Hawaii Sheep and Goat Association’s mission is to support, improve and strengthen Hawaii’s sheep and goat community by providing a network, coordinating educational and promotional events and serving as a unified voice to represent sheep and goat producers in Hawaii. The focus of our educational and promotional work to foster and encourage the breeding, raising, showing and marketing of sheep and goats and sheep and goat products as well as good grazing management.
Raia Olsan
Raia Olsan is a mother of 4 who owns and operates O’ahu Grazers, LLC, along with her husband, Daniel Olsen. She raises large flocks of hair sheep scattered across the island of O’ahu. She uses her sheep to manage the vegetation on multiple solar sites and has begun brush management by grazing with sheep and goats in fire-prone communities.
Thema Black
Since 2009, Thema manages purebred and crossbred Dorper sheep in Kona and Waimea. In the 70-90’s she and her family operated a sheep ranch in Oregon, where she showed and sold registered Suffolks. She is a volunteer staff member at YWAM Kona.