July 1, 2016 (West Hawaii Today)—As part of a three-day conference on the Kohala Coast this week, dozens of statewide representatives and Big Island partners gathered to brainstorm on local food production and how this key component of The Aloha+ Challenge can best be implemented statewide over the next 14 years.
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June 17, 2016 (Big Island Now)—The Kohala Center’s FoodCorps Hawai‘i program received a $28,000 Walmart Foundation grant to address childhood obesity and food insecurity at 12 schools on Hawai‘i Island and O‘ahu.
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May 23, 2016 (Big Island Now)—Entrepreneurs striving to make a positive impact in communities on the Big Island and Moloka’i may be eligible for the Kahiau Rural Business Development Microloan Program, which is administered by the Kohala Center.
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May 23, 2016 (Hawaii Tribune Herald)—Gardens are a rich resource for classrooms, giving kids hands-on experience with the concepts they learn about in school. But in East Hawaii, school gardens are like any backyard garden: they’re a place where slugs and snails make their homes, and where there are snails and slugs, there’s a potential for rat lungworm disease.
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May 16, 2016 (Maui Now)—A new report has been released by The Kohala Center, addressing the importance of subsistence fishing on Native Hawaiian health in the Moʻomomi area of Molokaʻi.
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May 13, 2016 (North Hawaii News)—As with the rest of the world, Hawaii is beginning to see the effects of growing environmental problems such as climate change, deforestation, urban growth and low water quality. Just as our canoe was built with many hands, Hawaii is going to need the efforts and insights of citizen scientists to address environmental issues.
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May 11, 2016 (North Hawaii News)—As with the rest of the world, Hawaii is beginning to see the effects of growing environmental problems such as climate change, deforestation, urban growth and low water quality. Just as our canoe was built with many hands, Hawaii is going to need the efforts and insights of citizen scientists to address environmental issues.
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May 2, 2016 (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)—Darren Strand, president of Maui Gold Pineapple Co., sells fresh and frozen pineapple to customers as far away as Japan, but getting Hawaii’s emblematic fruit into local public school cafeterias is a tougher order.
“It’s really frustrating to see how much pineapple they eat in the schools and none of it’s from Hawaii,” said Strand, whose company has 1,000 acres in cultivation. “So we’d like to fix that.”
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April 11, 2016 (West Hawaii Today)—Some brought leafy cuttings in gallon buckets, while others laid out baggies of tiny hot peppers and boxes of roots and tubers. Most brought seeds: squash seeds, pepper seeds, carrot seeds, herb seeds, and beans of all sorts, to name a few.
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March 26, 2016 (West Hawaii Today)—NORTH KOHALA — A $6 million trophy property on Kohala Mountain Road — plus a sweeping expanse of cliffside land near Keokea Beach Park in North Kohala — will be protected under a new initiative of The Kohala Center designed not only to safeguard lands but bring them back to production of traditional crops.
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