{"id":114230,"date":"2020-03-24T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114230"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:58:13","slug":"connecting-public-to-local-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/24\/connecting-public-to-local-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> program connects public, local farmers during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-farmers-gofarm.jpg\" alt=\"farmer hold food in field\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-114233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-farmers-gofarm.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-farmers-gofarm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-farmers-gofarm-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since farmers\u2019 markets have been shut down for the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak, local farmers are concerned about how they will be able to sell their produce, and locavores are wondering where they are going to buy their local produce and value-added products.<\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Hawai&#699;i\u2019s<\/span> successful farmer-training program, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofarmhawaii.org\/\">GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Hawai&#699;i<\/a>,<\/span> has been building a list of some <a href=\"https:\/\/gofarmhawaii.org\/farmer-resources-for-covid-19\/\">resources for farmers<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/gofarmhawaii.org\/find-your-farmer\/\">Find Your Farmer<\/a>, a list of farmers who are still offering access to food in non-traditional ways, such as through pick-up and drop-off. They have the information promoted on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gofarm.hawaii\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gofarmhawaii\/\">Instagram<\/a> pages so that farmers can add their information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has been addressing the issue of food security long before the unprecedented COVID-19 health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is a collaborative effort involving <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gofarmhawaii\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\">Windward Community College<\/a> and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s Agribusiness Incubator Program.<\/p>\n<p>They are looking for farmers who have food to sell as well as building a resource for people to access food. GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is also requesting any recommendations of services that can aid farmers during the interim so they can be added to the list.<\/p>\n<h2>More on GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has five program sites across four islands, making it one of the largest beginning-farmer training programs in the nation. Sites are located on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> (in Waim&#257;nalo and Waialua), <span aria-label=\"Kauai,\">Kaua&#699;i,<\/span> Maui and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island. Started in 2012, the program has successfully trained aspiring farmers throughout the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is building a list of resources for farmers including a Find Your Farmer list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,1411,1416,811,9],"class_list":["post-114230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-gofarm-hawaii","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114230"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115078,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114230\/revisions\/115078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}