When things were not looking great for students at Ka‘u High & Pahala Elementary School, the teachers took their lessons to the region’s roots — agriculture.
Hawaiʻi Grown
Civil Beat is delving deeply into what it would take for Hawaii to decrease its dependence on imported food and be better positioned to grow its own.
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Hawaii DOE Wants Kids To Say: ‘Mom, I Had The Greatest Meal At School Today’
A strategy is developing to use centralized kitchens to replace processed food imports currently served in student meals with fresh, local ingredients.
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Will This Bureaucratic Tug Of War Over Hawaii’s Ag Lands Finally End?
Ranchers are fed up with waiting two decades for the departments of Agriculture and Land and Natural Resources to sort out legally mandated land transfers.
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A New Crop Of Farmers Is Helping Hawaii Grow More Food
It’s not easy to make a living in agriculture. But some intrepid residents are trying to answer the state’s call to wean the islands off imported food.
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Hawaii Is Beefing Up Its Potential To Produce More Meat Locally
A billionaire’s investment in the state’s biggest slaughterhouses and a shift to more grass-fed operations could help ranchers keep their cattle in the islands after years of sending them to the mainland.
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Report: Limited Funding, Staff Could Delay DOE Effort To Meet Food Sustainability Goal
A new legislative report offers sparse detail on the planned overhaul of student meals served in Hawaii’s public schools.
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One Way To Counter The Ill Effects Of Hawaii’s Invasive Species: Eat Them
As Hawaii strives for a more self-sufficient food system, a large cache of protein in the form of feral pigs, axis deer and other invasives could help.
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Why Hawaii Needs To Rethink Efforts To Increase Local Food Production
Romantic ideas about locally grown food and a lack of statewide planning could be getting in the way of making real progress addressing food insecurity, climate change and the economy.
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Lawmakers Plan To Revive Old Bills For Future Of Food And Farming
As the focus on local food production continues, lawmakers and lobbyists want to make farming and ranching easier in Hawaii.