Hawaii Farmers Need Land. State Efforts To Help Aren’t Working - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Farmers Need Land. State Efforts To Help Aren’t Working
Providing small farmers land is key to producing more local food, but the state’s go-to model isn’t moving the needle. Reading time: 12 minutes.
Tina Bushnell has dedicated many nights and weekends over the past six years to her dream of quitting her day job and opening a tropical fruit orchard. But she’s struggled to clear the first hurdle: finding land.
Bushnell is a graduate of the University of Hawaii’s farmer training program and has real-world experience, so she would likely qualify for a plot of land at an agricultural park run by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture if there were any available in Waimanalo.