We hope you have enjoyed using the new Hawai'i Homegrown Food Network web site, where you can view our real-time events calendar and reports, publication reviews, featured organizations, videos & dvds, announcements, and much more. Now you can even view an up-to-date Farmers' Market and Community Supported Agriculture page!
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Homegrown Food for Hawai‘i Island
Life-long gardener Margaret Krimm of Honaunau teaches Julia Rosenkranz about compost.
Over 85% of the food Hawaii islanders consume is being grown, harvested, processed, packaged, stored on, and shipped from the U.S. mainland and other countries thousands of miles away. We rely on our food to be transported to us on a daily basis. This immense international food system has offered us cheap and abundant food for decades. With rising fuel costs, many people are now asking if we can count on the current system to continue to provide Hawai‘i with a constant and safe source of nutritious and affordable food.
Newsletter 15 - May 2010
Aloha!
Newsletter 14 - April 2010
Aloha!
If you haven't already done so, please check out the brand new Hawai'i Homegrown Food Network web site. Content from this newsletter and all past editions is posted there. Plus, the web site gives you new resources and features:
- An events calendar that is updated as new announcements come in, rather than only monthly in the newsletter.
- Brand new and archived events reports, publication reviews, featured organizations, videos & dvds, announcements, etc.
- A community page where you can find other people interested in local and sustainble food and interact with them.
- Site members (it's free to become a member) can submit events, reports, and announcements using online forms.
- And much more.
Newsletter 12 - March 2010
A Project for Hawai'i Island
Container gardening is a great way to grow food, especially where there's a lack of space or soil. See Events for an upcoming six-part series on container gardening.
Newsletter 13 - March 2010 (special edition)
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Aloha! The Hawai'i Homegrown Food Newsletter has been published monthly since April 2009 with a primary purpose in mind: To build local, sustainable food communities on Hawai'i Island. The newsletter connects people to each other, events, markets, and resources, and will continue to do so.
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