03-04-2018, 05:48 AM
HOTPE, there have been cases RLD outside of Hawaii County, most recently in Maui.
Yes, but I believe the cases were from Hana side, where like Puna, there are some fruit farms but commercial vegetable production is minimal. Hana is quite a distance from the larger commercial vegetable farms in Kula.
Flying in onions from Maui seems to defeat the purpose of "local" production.
Kula onions shipped 150 miles to Hilo are a lot more local than California onions shipped 2500 miles to Oahu, then transferred by barge to Hilo.
This thread was supposed to be about a job opening which will promote Hawaii commercial food production. Not backyard gardens in Puna with slugs. I personally would not buy lettuce from a Puna gardener, but I would buy Puna papayas, Maui chinese cabbage, or Oahu basil. If you know where your food originates, you will eat fresh, enjoy vitamins with your food (vitamin content in vegetables is reduced the longer it sits in a box or on a shelf) and provide jobs for local farmers. A noble endeavor and one worth promoting with state funds.
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
Yes, but I believe the cases were from Hana side, where like Puna, there are some fruit farms but commercial vegetable production is minimal. Hana is quite a distance from the larger commercial vegetable farms in Kula.
Flying in onions from Maui seems to defeat the purpose of "local" production.
Kula onions shipped 150 miles to Hilo are a lot more local than California onions shipped 2500 miles to Oahu, then transferred by barge to Hilo.
This thread was supposed to be about a job opening which will promote Hawaii commercial food production. Not backyard gardens in Puna with slugs. I personally would not buy lettuce from a Puna gardener, but I would buy Puna papayas, Maui chinese cabbage, or Oahu basil. If you know where your food originates, you will eat fresh, enjoy vitamins with your food (vitamin content in vegetables is reduced the longer it sits in a box or on a shelf) and provide jobs for local farmers. A noble endeavor and one worth promoting with state funds.
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
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