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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.
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The purpose of Study Abroad Day is to celebrate and bring awareness to the benefits and impact of Study Abroad.
UH Hilo business student Sienna Wareham, at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (the DMZ), flashes the peace sign. Sept. 28, 2019. “There are over 1,000 pinwheels at the DMZ,” she says of the colorful spinners placed there as a symbol of peace and unity. Wareham was studying business administration in South Korea on a scholarship funded by the host country. Photo courtesy of Sienna Wareham, click to enlarge. (See Sienna’s photo essay.)
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, along with the Institute of International Education, will be recognizing the fourth Monday in February (Feb. 22) as Study Abroad Day (#StudyAbroadDay). Although study abroad is temporarily suspended at UH Hilo due to the pandemic, in celebration of Study Abroad Day, the Center for Global Education and Exchange will be highlighting stories of Global Vulcans who have previously
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Christine Park says UH Hilo provided her with a solid foundation, helping her gain the essential knowledge and experience to be a mental health counselor. She now runs an adult education program that helps students improve their lives by finding career pathways.
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Park is now coordinator of the Individualized Career Achievement Network or iCAN transition program, a community-based initiative she established at the Waipahu Community School for Adults (WCSA), which has campuses on O‘ahu and Hawai‘i Island. The iCAN program helps students improve their lives by finding career pathways, whether to college or workforce training. It’s based at WCSA, which helps students earn their high school equivalency credentials and improve workplace skills. Qualified students can enroll in iCAN.
Savannah Harriman-Pote rejoined
The Conversation in 2021 after interning for Hawaiʻi Public Radio in the summers of 2018 and 2019. She completed her undergraduate degree in International Relations at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, during which time she worked for WMHC and
Mount Holyoke News. She has also worked with the audio documentary series Outer Voices and National Geographic. Savannah produces HPR s podcast
Manu Minute in collaboration with The University of Hawaii at Hilo. She was born and raised on the Big Island, and she collects public radio mugs.