Chefs & Farmers Facing Future : Food Forum

Imagine a sustainable local food system for Hawaii . . .

What would Hawaii be like without rice?

How will rising energy costs impact the ability to put food on our tables?

What would a creatively sustainable lunch in Hawaii look like?

SGF’s latest collaboration – with the inspirational folks at Leeward Community College’s Culinary Arts Program – is an opportunity to explore these questions, the challenges and very possible solutions.

“Chefs and Farmers Facing Future: A Forum on Food” will take place on Friday, April 15, 2011, 9am-2pm and will be moderated by Food Writer Wanda Adams and Master Sommelier Chuck Furuya.

Forum panelists will discuss Hawaii’s challenging state of food insecurity, the affects of rising energy costs and other issues. Attendants will also sample a locavore menu conceptualized and created by the LCC Culinary Arts Program’s faculty and students.

We’ve got a stellar forum advisory team behind this event too: Wanda Adams, Melissa Chang, Alex Franco, Chuck Furuya, Michelle Galimba, Richard Ha, John Heckathorn, Chef Ed Kenney, Jo McGarry, Dean Okimoto, Betty Shimabukuro, Chef Alan Wong, and Chef Roy Yamaguchi.

If you are interested in attending, please register by calling 455-0298. Seating is limited.

Event schedule here

Location:
Leeward Community College Theater
96-045 Ala Ike, Pearl City, Hawaii 96782
(Lots of on-campus parking)
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Food Map Users Manual

FARMS is a growing listing of farms operating in Hawaii. What are they growing and how to support them (though CSA, direct orders, or at farmers markets and retailers they sell at).

FOODS is a growing listing of information gathered about hundreds of fruits, vegetables, spices, and nuts currently being grown in Hawaii.

MARKETS is a growing listing of farmers markets operating in the state of Hawaii that are committed to the locally grown philosophy by insuring that 100% of the fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices and nuts are grown right here in Hawaii. It is our way of helping you to know where to get the freshest food possible and to direct your food dollars into building our local food system and a stronger local economy.

CSA is a growing listing of delivery programs created by farms themselves or farm supporters that make available on a weekly basis a box of fresh locally-grown veggies and fruits for delivery or pick-up. CSA stands for Community Support Agriculture and the concept was developed to help people support farms by placing regularly scheduled orders directly.

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