Doug Wolkon

Founder, Kauai Farmacy • Author • Herbal Medicine Advocate • Former Private Equity Executive

From a $3 billion private-equity fund to a Hawaiian farm growing plant medicine.

Doug Wolkon's journey from finance and economic theory to herbal medicine and regenerative agriculture gives him a unique perspective on health, business, economics, and our relationship with the natural world.

Doug's Expertise

Herbal Medicine & Holistic Health

• What modern society has forgotten about plant medicine
• How herbal traditions can complement modern approaches to health
• The relationship between nutrition, hydration, rest, and wellbeing
• What decades of working with medicinal plants have taught him about healing and life

From Private Equity to Plant Medicine

• Why Doug left the world of private-equity real estate
• What finance taught him about entrepreneurship and business
• How his worldview changed after experiencing a familial health ordeal
• Building a business around land, plants, and wellness

Regenerative Agriculture & ʻĀina

• Growing medicinal plants in Hawaiʻi
• What plants can teach us about resilience and adaptation
• Regenerative agriculture and stewardship of the land
• Reconnecting people with where their food and medicine come from
  

Biography

Doug Wolkon is the founder of Kauai Farmacy, a seed-to-cup herbal medicine grower and producer with worldwide distribution, and author of The New Game: A Strategy to Reinvent the American Economy. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Doug spent 10 years in private-equity real estate finance, becoming a partner and co-head of acquisitions for a $3 billion fund. He later spent several years studying economic theory and published his first book in 2007.

Following a familial health ordeal and a personal awakening beyond conventional medicine, Doug moved to Hawaiʻi in 2008, where he began stewarding the land and cultivating medicinal herbs and spices. Today, Kauai Farmacy is home to one of the most biodiverse collections of farm-grown plant medicine in the western hemisphere, producing herbal teas, superfood powders, tinctures, salves, serums, and other seasonal products.

Doug brings a unique perspective shaped by economics, finance, entrepreneurship, agriculture, and decades of living with plant medicine. He advocates holistic living, self-care, self-empowerment, and the balance of nutrition, rest, hydration, and connection to nature as foundations of health.

Interested in Having Doug on Your Podcast?

Doug would love to connect with you.

For podcast appearances, interviews, speaking opportunities, and media inquiries: steven@kauaifarmacy.com

Doug's guest appearances:

Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast (first appearance)

Ben Greenfield LIFE Podcast (second appearance)

Grounded Wellness Podcast by Primally Pure

Dr. Mindy Pelz's the Resetter's Podcast

The Herbalist Hour by HerbRally

Doug's Authorship:

The Kuleana Collective

The Healing Process

My Longevity Practice

Press:

1 Hotels Field Guide

Sunset Magazine

Authority Magazine

Thrive Global

Hawaii Magazine