The GreenWheel Food Hub helps Hawaii’s low-income residents to gain better access to fresh, locally-grown fruits and vegetables by creating a space to accept SNAP/EBT at local farmer’s markets. Nanette Geller shares with us how supporting farmer’s markets benefits local farmers and the community, as well as how some of the farmer’s markets across the […]
The Next Generation of Growers with Sam Durham
Sam Durham, Environmental Science and Agriculture Coordinator at the Asia Pacific International School, shares his experiences as a young non-traditional farmer through the lens of building a farm education program from scratch as well as his own personal farm. We will explore the value of garden education programs as well as challenges and resources for […]
The Role of the Extension Specialist with Hector Valenzuela PhD
At the University of Hawaii, the extension Specialist develops applied educational programs on a statewide level, and supports/interacts with extension agents who are based on the different islands. Hector Valenzuela, Ph.D. will give us more detail on the overall role of Extension (Specialists and agents) as part of the Univ. of Hawaii in terms of […]