Elemental Excelerator: Innovating from the Ground Up (Hawaii Food and Farmers Series)

Learn how Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time. Elemental Excelerator supports startups around the world with funding and professional expertise to improve areas of our lives that affect everyone: agriculture, water, energy, transportation, infrastructure and more. By supporting innovation at the ground level, we can build a better future […]

Business Building Blocks: Women Farmers Workshops with O’ahu RC&D (Hawaii Food and Farmers)

Creating a network of women farmers throughout Hawaii to empower local women-led farming operations. Stephanie and Matt will discuss their work with O’ahu RC&D in providing a series of women farmers workshops on O’ahu, Maui and Hawaii Island this month in order to connect women farmers and provide training in the areas of value-added production, […]

North Shore Economic Vitality Partnership: Food Safety & More (Food and Farmers Series)

North Shore EVP is uniquely positioned to build new civic leadership, strengthen communication and collaboration, and community engagement across O’ahu’s North Shore. On this episode of Hawaii Food and Farmer series, Stephanie Mock is joined by Kevin Kelly and Lisa Z. Rhoden to talk about food safety and GAP certifications for farmers The host for […]

Connecting Federal Resources to Farmers: NRCS (Hawaii Food and Farmer)

Connecting federal resources of the USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service with farmers and ranchers throughout the Pacific Islands. This week on Hawaii Food and Farmers series, we’ll learn how NRCS can assist landowners, farmers and ranchers throughout the Hawaiian islands to manage natural resources, receive technical assistance and participate in cost-share programs. The host […]

Ma’ili’ili Musings: Sustainable Agriculture in Waianae (Hawaii Food And Farmer)

Watershed management and sustainable agriculture projects in the Ma’ili’ili watershed within Waianae, Oahu. As Project Coordinator of the Mailiili Watershed Project, Frankie Koethe discusses the work she has been doing with local farmers to support their efforts in managing land sustainably throughout the Mailiili watershed including the provision of technical support, financial awards, community outreach […]

The Numbers Behind the Food: Agricultural Statistics in Hawaii (Hawaii Food And Farmer )

Putting numbers together to learn more about our agricultural system and food supply.. Kathy King and host will discuss the maybe not-so-glamorous world of statistics and how this service actually provides a huge insight into our local food system. Many people talk about the fact that “90% or our local food is imported” but Kathy […]

Parade of Farms- ‘Nalo Style: Manoa Chocolate (Hawaii Food And Farmer Series)

Local farmer & business woman speaks about her experiences growing & cultivating crops, business and mindfulness in Waimanalo. Manoa Chocolate will speak about their operations in Waimanalo and their involvement in the annual Parade of Farms event happening in May. They’ll speak about how farming is a collaborative effort in Waimanalo and how it’s important […]

Grass to Glass

Can local sugarcane production on O’ahu be revived? How can this old crop can be made new again? Noah Brown, Distillery Manager of Manulele Distillers appears on Hawaii Food and Farmer Series with Stephanie Mock to discuss how they utilize the grass to glass approach in making their high-end agricole rum, sugarcane varietals, value-added production […]

Funding Opportunies for Farmers

Tune in for Hawaii Food and Farmer Series where Miranda Foley and Frankie Koethe of O’ahu Resource Conservation & Development Council (O’ahu RC&D) discuss work being completed in the Kaalaea, Waiahole and Ma’ili’ili watersheds specifically regarding community work and installation of best management practices and how these communities can seek potential cost-share funding from these […]

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- Shane Goldmacher
How Has Trump Changed the GOP? His Criminal-Trial Guest List Tells the Tale.

The former president’s trial has become a staging ground for aspiring allies to prove their fealty, the latest litmus test in a party increasingly defined by loyalty to Donald Trump. [...]

- Michael Wilson and Catie Edmondson
Mike Johnson Visits Trump’s Criminal Trial to Say What He Can’t

Outside the Manhattan courthouse where Donald J. Trump is being tried on criminal charges, Mike Johnson attacked a key witness who linked the former president to a plan to cover [...]

- Jeanna Smialek
Fed Chair’s Confidence in Slowing Inflation Is ‘Not as High’ as Before

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said that the central bank was poised to leave interest rates on hold after surprisingly stubborn inflation. [...]

- Ben Casselman and Jeanna Smialek
High Interest Rates Are Hitting Poorer Americans the Hardest

The economy as a whole has proved resilient amid the highest rates in decades. But beneath the surface, many low- and moderate-income families are struggling. [...]

- Simon Romero, Paulina Villegas and Luis Antonio Rojas
The Other Busing Program: Mexico Is Pushing Migrants Back South

In response to pressure from the Biden administration to curb migration flows, Mexico has quietly bused thousands of migrants away from the U.S. border to sites deep in the country’s [...]

Huge manhunt in France for prisoner after two officers killed in ambush

The deadly ambush began when a car rammed into a police van, before gunmen attacked the officers. [...]

Riot police move in on Georgia parliament protesters

There have been weeks of mass street protests in the capital sparked by a divisive "foreign agent" law. [...]

Cohen admits past lies before Trump lawyer starts questioning

Donald Trump's former lawyer is into his second day of blockbuster testimony at Trump's hush-money trial. [...]

Three in court over alleged terror plot to attack Jewish community

Three men are accused of planning a gun attack on the Jewish community in North-West England. [...]

Russia must pay for Ukraine's reconstruction - Blinken

The US secretary of state delivers remarks in Kyiv during a surprise visit, telling Ukraine "you are not alone". [...]

Acclaimed author Alice Munro was the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Her collections of short stories were celebrated for their complexity and authenticity. She died at [...]

Far-right politician Björn Höcke, a former history teacher, denied during the trial knowing the origin of the slogan he used on the campaign trail. [...]

Two court rulings this week have dealt a blow to the Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Pressure is now mounting for the party to be banned. [...]

Pakistan's government has announced subsidies to lower the price of flour and electricity after four days of rallies in which four people were killed in clashes with police.. [...]

Mike Johnson is the latest Republican to lend public support to presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is standing trial for trying to hide an extramarital affair with a porn [...]

- Daniel Estrin
Israelis and Palestinians held a joint memorial for all victims of the ongoing war

It's rare for Israelis and Palestinians to join together for any reason during these days of war. But some did so this week for a ceremony honoring victims from all [...]

- Bobby Allyn
Legal experts say a TikTok ban without specific evidence violates the First Amendment

The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free [...]

- Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Strike kills U.N. aid worker, injures another in southern Gaza

The United Nations said that one of its aid workers was killed and another injured when their vehicle was struck on Monday in Rafah in southern Gaza. [...]

- Ximena Bustillo
Michael Cohen, a key witness in the Trump hush money trial, returns to the stand

He once boasted of being Donald Trump's "protector" but now he is testifying to lying for Trump's benefit, including about payments made to an adult film star ahead of the [...]

- Rachel Treisman
Fallout continues from the Miss USA resignations as a runner-up declines the crown

After a pair of resignations rocked the pageant world, organizers have found a replacement for Miss USA but not Miss Teen USA. Last year's runner-up said this week that she [...]

- Associated Press

Federal auto safety regulators are warning people not to stick decals on their steering wheels because they can be hurled at drivers if the air bags inflate in a crash [...]

- Emily Langer

The Canadian writer’s works of short fiction illuminated seemingly ordinary lives. [...]

- Washington Post staff

Kenya’s president ordered the evacuation of all homes along the nation’s rivers after floods killed at least 169 people in the past month, with dozens still missing. [...]

- Matthew Lee | AP

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seeking to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them that they are not alone and that [...]

- Heather Long

People aren’t eager to return to offices, but they’re venturing downtown after hours and on weekends. [...]

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