Aloha Market Friend!
Mobile Sharpener!
Santa says “Bring those knives and sharpen them up!”
Glossy Paper Pick-up!
Sustainable Association of Hawaii and Hagadone Printing
will collect your glossy paper… bring it on!
Check it out! Mana Ai’s Daniel Anthony is featured in this month’s Modern Luxury on page 56, and the HFM made Dorian Wright’s Hot List on page 96. Mahalo Dorian!
Rain or shine, you can find us every Sunday 9-1! (During an actual Tsunami… maybe not so much) While we prefer a sunny day, we are equally grateful for the rainy ones - as they keep paradise green and the crops watered. Since I didn’t have much opportunity to snap photos in the intermittent rain this week, you can enjoy these from the week prior!
Shopping with Sekhone & Griff of Twigg Pacific Farms; Pesto Butter- just one of the many flavors of fresh churned butter from Naked Cow Dairy; beautiful display at Plumeria Sun; adorable & creative new vases from Lauren Aldeman ; delightful orchids from Ann; Twin Bridge Farm turnips, Cassava Cake from Happy’s Hawaii, and radishes from Mohala Farms.
Twin Bridge Farms asparagus; fancy new bags from Defend Oahu Coalition; colorful tropicals from Ann at Orchids-R-Us; everybody loves Grilled Pesto Pizza and Fried Green Tomatoes from Big Wave Flavors; tasty cilantro waiting to become salsa.
Filling the bags at Tan’s veggie booth; handmade bags from authentic middle eastern textiles; tomatoes and carrot display from North Shore Farms; Colin Helihy from Bethany Beach, Delaware (maker of the documentary “Surfing Through Time”, about the pioneers of surfboard design from 1937-69) and his friend visit the HFM ; reading in Keiki Korner; AiJuice from North Shore Noni
EASTER CELEBRATION &
MAD HATTER TEA PARTY
Mark your calendar for Easter Sunday, April 4th… we are pulling out the bunnies and having a Tea Party for the keiki! Rex & Surf Dog will be making crowns, we will play croquet, have a tea-race and bunny in a sack races! Alice, The Mad-Hatter, Queen of Hearts, and the White Rabbit will be on hand to play!
- Act Now -
Slow Food O’ahu is relaying this important message from Food Democracy Now about an important set of rules pending by the USDA. Here is their announcement….
Everything you thought you knew about organics is about to change. If the USDA and Monsanto get their way, organic integrity is about to go the way of the dinosaur. Once again, the organic industry is under assault. This time the USDA is determined to let Monsanto ride roughshod over common sense environmental rules that would protect organic farmers from having their crops contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds.Tell Secretary Vilsack that Monsanto’s GMO alfalfa cannot be allowed to undermine the organic industry. Comments are due by close of business on Wednesday, March 3rd. So please ACT TODAY
During the Bush administration, Monsanto illegally won USDA approval for its GMO alfalfa by convincing USDA regulators to bypass a mandatory environmental review.1 In 2007, a court reversed this decision, ordering the USDA to complete the legally required environmental impact statement (EIS).
Shockingly, the Obama Administration’s recent review would approve Monsanto’s GMO alfalfa.The draft USDA EIS was issued in December 2009 and is poised to allow Monsanto’s GMO alfalfa on the market, despite the fact that theUSDA admits that these seeds will contaminate organic feed that organic dairy farmers rely on to produce organic milk.2. According to the CEO of the largest farmer-owned organic dairy coop in the U.S., GMO alfalfa “threatens the very fabric of the organic industry.”3 We can’t allow this to happen. Despite massive public outcry in the past, the USDA’s environmental review went so far as to say that U.S. organic consumers don’t care about GMO contamination.
Tell Secretary Vilsack that you care about organic contamination and that you want him to stand up for the organic industry and organic consumers.