Agriculture

A Deep Well May Bring Kunia Village’s Toxic Water Legacy To An End Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

A Deep Well May Bring Kunia Village’s Toxic Water Legacy To An End

The former Del Monte pineapple plantation camp’s water sources have been tainted by forever chemicals and crop fumigants.

Data Dive: Farmworkers Earn Well Over Minimum Wage But Not Enough For Hawai‘i Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Data Dive: Farmworkers Earn Well Over Minimum Wage But Not Enough For Hawai‘i

Farm and ranch workers made almost $22 an hour on average last year but still fell just below the state’s survival wage.

Hawai‘i Food Banks And Farmers Are In ‘Real Trouble’ With Federal Cuts Ronen Zilberman/Civil Beat/2020

Hawai‘i Food Banks And Farmers Are In ‘Real Trouble’ With Federal Cuts

Funding for food stamp programs and food banks are under threat, grants to boost farming have been slashed and, now, the state might step up to help.

Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built

The Department of Education is pinning its local food buying goals on a central facility, and the budget is getting bigger and bigger.

Major GMO Seed Company Is Maui County’s Top Water Customer (Erin Nolan/Civil Beat/2025)

Major GMO Seed Company Is Maui County’s Top Water Customer

While the genetically modified seed industry has declined across Hawaiʻi, records show Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, has increased its water usage on two Maui farms by 13% since 2021.

Waiʻanae Goes All In With New $17M Facility To Boost Food Security Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Waiʻanae Goes All In With New $17M Facility To Boost Food Security

A 15-acre campus is expected to include a food bank, fruit trees, community kitchen, wastewater treatment center and more.

Changing Course, Honolulu Is Now Planting Food In Public Spaces Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2025

Changing Course, Honolulu Is Now Planting Food In Public Spaces

Advocates envision free food for local commuters at rail stations and beyond.

Hawaiʻi Will Soon Be Home To The World’s Biggest Land-Based Seaweed Farm

Hawaiʻi Will Soon Be Home To The World’s Biggest Land-Based Seaweed Farm

Ag tech company Symbrosia is scaling up production of its feed supplements for more environmentally friendly livestock production.

Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On (Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2025)

Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On

ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a climate-resilient solution to world food security. That’s not proving true in the Marshall Islands, where some have relied on it for centuries.

Use It Or Lose It? Kauaʻi Wants Robinson Resort Land Back To Agriculture Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Use It Or Lose It? Kauaʻi Wants Robinson Resort Land Back To Agriculture

Developers have failed to start construction on the 250-room project for the past two decades.