East Coast Kahuna

Hawaii Farmers' Market and Sustainability

While on a visit in Hawaii, I saw Dean Okimoto, one of my Iolani classmates, on TV. Although he is owner of Nalo Farms in Waimanalo, he was representing the Hawaii Farmer Bureau Federation as President. This group runs the Hawaii Farmers' Market. He talked about a new cookbook that was just being published (it's not in the bookstores yet, but I will be getting it sometime in the near future). Hawaii farmers are very aware of the need for sustainability in the islands (see Sustainable Hawaii). According to Dean, there's only a 7 day food supply on hand here - the rest gets shipped in. This does not sound like a good situation. For such a geographically isolated location, Hawaii residents need to be more aware how vulnerable they are. Although I haven't seen the cookbook yet, I hope that there is some information regarding sustainability within its contents.

In Ithaca, sustainability is also an important issue(see Sustainable Tompkins). Ithaca is very progressive with respect to environmental and sustability issues.Take a look at my earlier blog from Sept. 16, 2006, where Ithaca "green" behaviour is mentioned with Vermont's.

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