Our 27-minute documentary film on agriculture, Scaling up: Hawaii's Food Future, was played at the UH Law School last week to a sold out and enthusiastic house. After a reception where some very good local food was sponsored by some very good sponsors, we had a program on the film and the subject.
This movie was selected for the Hawaii International Film Festival and on PBS Hawaii. Here's the link on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/EzWgUDfbFOs
The program was organized and presented by Professor Robert Perkinson of the School of American Studies as a part of the Better Tomorrow speaker series at UH Manoa. Jay Fidell moderated.
It included remarks by the filmmaker Kim Bassford, then a panel of four: Murray Clay, President of Ulupono Initiative; Ka'eo Duarte, Vice President of Community and 'Aina Resiliency of Kamehameha Schools; Haley Miyaoka, co-founder of Ahiki Acres farm; and Janel Yamamoto, Director of GoFarm Hawaii.
There were also three legislators in the crowd, Senators Mike Gabbard and Laura Acasio and Representative Mark Hashem. Everyone enjoyed the movie, the remarks by Kim Bassford and the exchange and takeaways from her and the panelists.
As we all know, local agriculture is very important for Hawaii, and not only for its place in Hawaii culture and history. We hope to do lots more on the subject and what it can do for Hawaii in terms of feeding our people, providing food security, developing business infrastructure, education and jobs, inventing cutting edge technology, and complementing the hospitality and restaurant industries
We'll post the video of the program as soon as it is available, and if you did not attend we hope you will watch it then. ThinkTech has been covering agriculture and agricultural technology in Hawaii since our earliest days 21 years ago. But there'a lot more to learn, do and follow on Hawaii's Food Future going forward. It is a subject we can hardly afford not to cover.
Suffice to say, stay tuned for more on agriculture on ThinkTech.
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