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Hawai‘i Food Map: Farmers & Chefs Huli Hui

The No Waste Project, known as the Huli Hui aims to connect chefs and food manufacturers with farmers who have surplus and off-grade produce that needs to be sold quickly.

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Hawaiʻi Food Map

What’s the Hawai‘i Food Map? It’s an everyday, anybody’s guide to what’s being grown here, where to get it and of course, how to prepare and store it.

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Toward a New Agriculture

“The Songs of Chu” express this love for the forests, rivers, lakes and mountains of Chu in a manner that combines the spiritual and sensual, wild nature and human culture.

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Wahiawa Farmers’ Market + EBT

When the whistle blows at exactly 4:30 p.m. tonight this little market will begin accepting EBT (electronic benefit transfer for SNAP fka food stamps).

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Next on She grows food: Jackie Akuna

Jackie Akuna and Leilehua High School’s Agricultural Learning Center Students

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Ka’u: Rural, Resilient, Relevant

“It is really an exciting time to be in agriculture. Although it’s still a difficult, risky way to make a living, at least there is more social support; there is a story being told that is supportive of agriculture and rural communities . . . ”

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Highway 11
Explore Issues,Food Systems
Ka'u: Rural, Resilient, Relevant
"It is really an exciting time to be in agriculture. Although it’s still a difficult, risky way to make a living, at least there is more social support; there is a story being told that is supportive of agriculture and rural communities . . . "
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Meet Farmers
Sharon Peterson Cheape: Getting to the Heart of Agriculture
When 2010 rolled around, the Peterson family knew that they would have to do something special and they are still figuring out just what.
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Eat Well
Grandma Fely's Tilapia Soup
Tomatoes, she would say to me with enthusiastic conviction as we watched the little seedlings grow . . .
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Meet Farmers
Sokha Hester: The Circle of Growing
There's always that moment. That bright second when the world aligns itself into an open path. For Sokha Hester, the path has been both treacherous and remarkable.
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Eat Well
Hog Wild For Hawaii-Grown Part Two, or The Art of Pork of Chef Noreen Lam
The Art of Pork: Noreen Lam’s Recipe Homage to Uchinanchu Classics. {photo: Tia Castro}