ah man - no more Maui Gold's

[Devany]

You are so right, agriculture is the key to sustainability and is essential to us all for a good life. I actually place it above education in many realms. The sad footnote to this story is that just like in many American industries, we are undercut by cheap imports once again. There are still many pineapple farmers on a much smaller scale here on the big island and probably on the others as well. Support your local farmers by shopping at farmer's markets and grocery stores that do not feature local papayas, pineapples, tomatoes, taro, sweet potatoes, lettuces, avocados and other produce that is grown here in abundance. Speak with your wallets and tell the produce managers why. Do you know that there are more varieties of avocados here than any other place in the world? And yet most of them go to pig food and compost because our own stores do not buy them. Instead they buy Mexican and California Haas which are hugely inferior to most local Avos.

Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

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