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How People Across Hawaii Are Creating Spaces To Grow Their Own Food Courtesy: Amanda Spangler

How People Across Hawaii Are Creating Spaces To Grow Their Own Food

Locally grown vegetables are expensive, so communities are coming together to grow fresh produce.

Court Rules In Favor Of A&B, Land Board In Maui Water Dispute Courtesy: DLNR

Court Rules In Favor Of A&B, Land Board In Maui Water Dispute

Sierra Club Hawaii is weighing its legal options in the case regarding East Maui stream diversions.

How Addressing Hawaii鈥檚 Affordable Housing Crisis Could Help Farming Efforts Cory Lum/Civil Beat

How Addressing Hawaii鈥檚 Affordable Housing Crisis Could Help Farming Efforts

Farmers say housing insecurity threatens their ability to retain employees and makes it difficult to ramp up production.

Relics Of Sugar鈥檚 Past, Hawaii Dams Will Take Years To Fix Or Remove Courtesy: DLNR

Relics Of Sugar鈥檚 Past, Hawaii Dams Will Take Years To Fix Or Remove

The majority of Hawaii’s dams trace their roots back to the sugar cane plantation days, but the industry has left the state. And so has the money to maintain them.

Online Platform Lets Low-Income Shoppers Buy Local Farm Products Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

Online Platform Lets Low-Income Shoppers Buy Local Farm Products

Farm Link Hawaii connects food stamp beneficiaries with local farmers. The next step: taking those transactions online.

‘Fake Farms’ Are Squeezing Out Serious Agriculture Potential In Hawaii Stewart Yerton/Civil Beat/2021

‘Fake Farms’ Are Squeezing Out Serious Agriculture Potential In Hawaii

Some developers have turned acreage earmarked for farming into high-end luxury homes with high prices and restrictions on what the land can be used for.

Made In Hawaii? This Innovative Startup Can Help You Promote Your Product Brittany Lyte/Civil Beat

Made In Hawaii? This Innovative Startup Can Help You Promote Your Product

When the pandemic hit, the start-up ditched its hospitality-focused components and zeroed in on a goal to help Hawaii food entrepreneurs reach a larger audience.

Fewer Farmers Are Growing Hawaii’s ‘Miracle Food’ Taro Despite Growing Demand Yoohyun Jung/Civil Beat

Fewer Farmers Are Growing Hawaii’s ‘Miracle Food’ Taro Despite Growing Demand

Growing, cultivating and cooking the starchy root vegetable, which is used to make poi, is hard work that鈥檚 not always profitable.

Seed Diversity Is Vital To The Future Of Food

Seed Diversity Is Vital To The Future Of Food

The work of saving and breeding seed once made enormous contributions to Hawaii’s agriculture 鈥斕齛nd it must again.听

This Program Helped Big Island Farmers And Families. Now It’s Out Of Cash Cory Lum/Civil Beat

This Program Helped Big Island Farmers And Families. Now It’s Out Of Cash

Federal funding and private donations helped support local food producers and feed thousands of local families during the pandemic.