Fewer Farmers Are Growing Hawaii s Miracle Food Taro Despite Growing Demand civilbeat.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from civilbeat.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hawaii Farmers Need Land. State Efforts To Help Aren’t Working - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Farmers Need Land. State Efforts To Help Aren’t Working
Providing small farmers land is key to producing more local food, but the state’s go-to model isn’t moving the needle. Reading time: 12 minutes.
Tina Bushnell has dedicated many nights and weekends over the past six years to her dream of quitting her day job and opening a tropical fruit orchard. But she’s struggled to clear the first hurdle: finding land.
Bushnell is a graduate of the University of Hawaii’s farmer training program and has real-world experience, so she would likely qualify for a plot of land at an agricultural park run by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture if there were any available in Waimanalo.
Hawaii Farmers Need Better Data To Make Decisions civilbeat.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from civilbeat.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Senate Panel Kills Beef Bill - Honolulu Civil Beat
Senators were concerned the bill, aimed at keeping one company from dominating the processing industry, was unconstitutional.
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A Senate committee on Wednesday effectively killed a bill intended to impose operating restrictions on an Idaho rancher who has acquired about 70% of Hawaii’s beef processing capacity.
Instead, Sen. Mike Gabbard, who chairs the Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee, told the bill’s proponents and opponents to sit down and work things out.
“If no can, at least you tried,” Gabbard said.
Parker Ranch on the Big Island is a major producer of local grass-fed beef in Hawaii. Courtesy: Parker Ranch
Can You Make Money Being A Farmer In Hawaii? 2 Farmers Explain How They re Doing It - Honolulu Civil Beat
Can You Make Money Being A Farmer In Hawaii? 2 Farmers Explain How They’re Doing It
It takes a lot of creativity and hard work to overcome the high cost of running a farm in the islands. Reading time: 11 minutes.
To many people, it might smell like a pile of rotting leaves, but not to Fung Yang.
“What you’re smelling is the smell of money to us,” says Yang, owner of Small Kine Farm in Waimanalo.
Yang grows organic mushrooms, and the earthy smell comes from piles of wood-chipped trees that Yang composts into what amounts to soil – the scientific word is substrate – for the portobellos he cultivates.