Growing Farmers in North Kohala
Check out my article The “Cool Factor” Bonds Youth and Farming in the November-December issue of Ke Ola Magazine.
The article is about the Uluwehi Farms / Hawaii Youth Agriculture Project CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in North Kohala. The project is growing food and farmers.
One of our “green businesses” in Hawaii is farming, but the high cost of land and inputs, and the low cost of imported food, have driven many farmers off the land. It is generally agreed that in order to re-localize our food production we need to have more farmers, and that means making farming an attractive and financially viable career option for our youth. Dashiell Kuhr of Uluwehi Farms / Hawaii Youth Agriculture Project / The Kohala Center (growing food and farmers takes many hands!) is one of the people helping to foster agricultural entrepreneurship among youth on Hawai’i Island.
Related Links:
North Kohala Food Forum
Hawaii Island School Garden Network
Hawaii Homegrown Food Network
Podcast on the Kohala Center’s Food Self-Reliance Program
Tags: andrea dean, dashiell kuhr, going green andrea dean, green business hawaii, green coach, hawaii youth agriculture, life coach hawaii, north kohala, sustainability, sustainable business hawaii, the kohala center, Tom Baldwin, uluwehi farms
November 19th, 2009 at 2:05 am
The article is great. Some feedback:
1. The image at the start has 4 people, but the caption lists 5 names, so we’re left wondering who is who.
2. In the sidebar image of you with produce, it says “locally-grown starch crops [...] yakon.” FYI, yacon does not contain starch. Starch would be calories, and yacon is nearly calorie-free “diet” food. It does have good stuff like water, fiber, FOS for your internal flora, and antioxidants.
April 30th, 2010 at 7:58 am
good put up, this may increasingly help me with some odd stuff i ought to do for college, thanks my buddy