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YOUTH FOOD CAMPAIGN UPDATES
Student campaigns launched at Sept Youth Summit.
Student executive council meets this month.

CONFERENCE NETWORK NEWS
1st re-gathering at MA’O Farms on October 31st. Join us!

ARTICLES, BLOGS
“Young and Hungry” - Honolulu Weekly, by Sean Aronson 6/24/09
“Food Sovereignty Conference” - Share Your Table Blog, by Martha Cheng 6/18/09


PICTURES
Submitted by Kaimana Pine


CONFERENCE DIRECTORY
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PARTICIPANTS’ COMMENTS
“...was good to have the talk story time with others. Good group of folks. Thanks!” Mark Hamamoto, Farmer - Mohala Farms

“...congratulations on a wonderful conference.” Leyla Cabugos, STEM Workforce Dev Program

“Thanks so much for a most terrific conference! I thoroughly enjoyed it and gained so much in terms of knowledge and experience. I am sending you a link to some pictures that I hope you will enjoy.  I wish I could have taken more, but a few will have to do! https://www.hawaii.edu/filedrop/dl/LZVwz-kcrrN-MiOUT-mLBxt. Thanks again and I hope to come back to Ma’o for the last Saturday’s of the month. Oh, and please thank Jonathon for giving us a great experience on the farm. He rocked it!!” Martha Coleman, UHManoa Grad Student

“Thanks for the great time.  I learned a lot and met some awesome people.  Hope all is well” Denise Hayashi, Consultant for Farm Bureau


PERSONAL COMMITMENTS
I plan to make a garden. I plan to educate our opio here in Windward- Ko’olau loa about food sovereignty and help them spread the word. - Sharon Spencer, QLCC

I commit to eating more veggies, and trying to eat more food from Hawai’i if it is can fit my budget. I commit towards getting OHA and everyone to think more on these issues. I commit to work towards building bridges among diverse interests to buuld our agricultural capacity and support systems for growing our own food and perhaps energy (not so much other folks food and energy). I commit to work towards conserving land in general for cultural and natural resources. -General Participant, OHA

I commit to buying local and organic as much as possible, and asking the stores where I shop to carry more local and organic produce.  I commit to reducing my waste through composting, recycling, and reusing, and educating my neighbors about what they can do.  - Laurel Trammel

I commit to continue to buying local, to bring my own bags to the grocery store and to the farmers’ market.  But more importantly, I commit to continue teaching UHWO students about issues by incorporating them into the curriculum of the classes I teach, even those that go beyond the Politics of Food. - Monique Mironesco, UHWO

I commit to: choose to buy local before imported whenever I have the choice [and] grow more food at home. - Kaliko Amona, Kokua Hawaii Foundation

I commit to work harder to improve the soil that holds the food I grow. I hope to eliminate pests such as aphids through improving the health of the soil. - Taylor Rock, Kokua Kalihi Valley

We are getting ready to break ground on a farm and are inspired and encouraged by this movement. - Gabe and Shelle Machado, Farmers

I commit to public advocacy. - Dee Texidor

I commit to increase my awareness and share this information with others.  I commit to increasing the amount of local foods I purchase. I commit to making lifestyle changes to live more sustainably. - General Participant

I commit to growing more of the food I eat ... which also means committing to eating healthier, too! - Malama Learning Center Staff

I commit to buying local produce whenever possible, no matter what the cost. - General Participant, NPAC

I commit to assisting in the creation and maintenance of a family garden at my parent’s home within 2 months of today.
I commit to assisting in the maintenance of a community garden at KEY Project for the next year.
I commit to educating and enlisting the youth at KEY Project to participate in a food sovereignty project before the end of 2009 (e.g. community mapping of the food sources in the Koolaupoko area, creating a business plan for marketing the goods from our garden at the regional park or at KEY, creating a link with Castle Complex schools to encourage healthy eating there in conjunction with the “Eat-Ins” planned for August).
~Vickie Punua-McGinnis, KEY Project