Although not certified organic, Olana Farm grows produce on 2.25-acres using strictly organic methods. What’s growing now Arugula, avocado, basil (Thai, Italian, lemon), bak choy, beets, carrots, celery, chard (Swiss, rainbow), chives, cilantro, collards, fennel, green onions, ginger, guava, kale (curly, lacinato, red Russian, red curly), kaffir (leaves, fruit), mint, mustard greens (red, green),...
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New regs for Tuesday: Bath salts, bananas, housing
Tuesday’s edition of the Federal Register contains new regulations that would ban new strands of bath salts, allow Filipino bananas in Hawaii, and a handful of rules for executives in the housing industry. Here’s what is happening: Bananas: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering changes to a rule that would allow Filipino bananas...
Continue readingIn Philippines, banana growers feel effect of South China Sea dispute
PANABO, Philippines — Dazzled by the opportunities offered by China’s vast and increasingly prosperous populace, Renante Flores Bangoy, the owner of a small banana plantation here in the southern Philippines, decided three years ago to stop selling to multinational fruit corporations and stake his future on Chinese appetites. Through a local exporter, he started...
Continue readingUK consumers go bananas for Fairtrade
Sales of fairly traded products have bucked the trend of decline in the UK retail market to grow by 12% in the last year. The value of Fairtrade products sold through shops reached £1.32bn in 2011, compared to £1.17bn in 2010, according to figures from the Fairtrade Foundation, as it launches its annual marketing...
Continue readingTropical Gardening – Vitamins abound
Tropical Gardening — Vitamins aboundSunday, January 15 2:10 am Lucky we live Hawaii, but we can learn a lot from gardeners on other tropical islands. Right now, we are in the Dominican Republic working with farmers on a project sponsored by the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas, or...
Continue readingDig farm-fresh foods? Be part of growing interest on Maui
Dig farm-fresh foods? Be part of growing interest on MauiMaui County Farm Bureau’s on a mission to honor its future leaders, cook up tours, demos and contests for Agricultural Month in SeptemberSeptember 25, 2011By CARLA TRACY – Dining Editor (carlatracy@mauinews.com) , The Maui NewsSave | Bookmark and Share Mauians love his ripe, juicy Kula...
Continue readingHawaii’s farm future: Fertile fields?
Introduction In 2008, a report from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and the state Department of Agriculture estimated that between 85 percent and 90 percent of the state’s food was imported every year and concluded that there wasn’t much anyone could do to change the situation. ” … Even though Hawaii can conceivably grow anything...
Continue readingBattling a Virus Ravaging East Africa’s Cassava Crops – New York Times
MUKONO, Uganda — Lynet Nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open. Inside its tan skin, the white flesh was riddled with necrotic brown lumps, as obviously diseased as any tuberculosis lung or cancerous breast. “Even the pigs refuse this,” she said. The plant was what she called a...
Continue readingHawaii Tribune-Herald | Many varieties of world’s most important fruit
Bananas are fun to grow, with tips from a pro Bananas can grow quite vigorously and productively in many landscapes and gardens on the Big Island. The many varieties of this large, perennial herb yield the world’s most important fruit. The ripening, homegrown bunches hang in garages around the state, ready to nourish our...
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