The Puna Small Farm Initiative, a grassroots farm aid-project, seeks to help small farmers in order to promote local food self-sufficiency. Our small farmers rarely ask for help and are often challenged by deferred maintenance and lack of help and materials for small expansion plans. The Small Farm Initiative offers occasional volunteer days and small [...]
Hawaii Organic Farmers Association http://www.hawaiiorganicfarmers.org Sustainable Agriculture A blog dedicated to discussion of issues related to the sustainability of agriculture in Hawaii and across the country. Organic Working Group for the University of Hawaii’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Organic Recipes from Spiral Foods in Austrailia http://www.spiralfoods.com.au/main_frame.html Leave a comment to send us [...]
The early “Hawaiians” didn’t need to be told to live in a sustainable fashion. Logic ruled. It was rampant. It still is in many rural, off-the-grid communities on Hawai`i Island. Common sense was ordinary hundreds of years ago and ahupua`a wasn’t a grassroots movement or a government mandate. It was a way of life for [...]
