FIRST PHOTO: Taylor Love Gonzales, 5, gets her Easter bunny face on with the help of expert face painter Rachel DeBoer during Saturday's Maui County Agricultural Festival at the Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu. DeBoer is the owner of Fabulous Faces. The annual celebration of island ranchers, farmers, chefs and other agriculture producers drew a large crowd through the day.
SECOND PHOTO: Chef James McDonald dishes up a plate of Molokai sweet potato gnocchi with heirloom tomatoes and O'o Farm herbs Saturday while participating in the festival's Grand Taste Education. McDonald was cooking with sweet potatoes grown by Molokai farmers Lynn and Russell DeCoite.
THIRD PHOTO: Waikapu rancher Avery Chumbley breaks up a head-butting match between longhorns Makani Kiko (right) and Makani Niele in the livestock tent Saturday. Chumbley said the longhorns were between 4 and 5 years old, and their horns will continue growing until the age of 7, reaching about 6 feet from tip to tip.
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