Wai'anae Community Food Security Conference

Food security is important everywhere, but doubly so to Hawai'i. We receive a higher than average amount of our food from elsewhere, and are unusually vulnerable to supply chain problems. Addressing issues of sustainability, organic farming and food security, the upcoming Wai'anae Community Food Security Conference "Hands Turned to the Soil"* will be approaching these local issues with a local 'aina-based sensitivity. I noticed that MA'O Farms are a major conference sponsor, which is a big plus in my book. MA'O Farms combines youth leadership development with an organic agricultural industry, and regularly have a stall at the The Saturday Farmer's Market at KCC.

Learn more about the Food Security Conference from fellow O'ahu blogger, The Free Range Gourmet.

* "Hands Turned to the Soil" comes from a Hawaiian saying, "Ne huli ka lima iluna, popoli ka opu; Ne huli ka lima ilalo, piha ka opu." When your hands are turned up, you will be hungry, when your hands are turned to the soil you will be full. Deep.