{"id":130132,"date":"2020-11-05T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T02:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=130132"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:45:07","slug":"600k-to-develop-local-food-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/05\/600k-to-develop-local-food-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"&#36;600<abbr title=\"thousand\">K<\/abbr> to develop local farmers, food supply"},"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\/11\/manoa-ctahr-gofarm.jpg\" alt=\"farmers\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-ctahr-gofarm.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-ctahr-gofarm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-ctahr-gofarm-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s successful farmer-training program, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofarmhawaii.org\/\">GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a>, is the only project in the state to be awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.nifa.usda.gov\/cgi-bin\/starfinder\/0?path=fastlink1.txt&#038;id=anon&#038;pass=&#038;search=R=89454&#038;format=WEBLINK\">Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Program grant<\/a> from the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (<abbr title=\"U.S.Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture\">USDA-NIFA<\/abbr). <\/abbr><\/p>\n<p>The $600,000 grant will support education, mentoring and technical assistance initiatives for beginning farmers or ranchers. The primary goal is to improve success through projects that provide the knowledge, skills and tools needed to make informed decisions for their operations, and enhance their sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are so grateful to <abbr>USDA-NIFA<\/abbr> for supporting our program,&rdquo; said GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Director <strong>Janel Yamamoto<\/strong>. &ldquo;This investment will help to develop more sustainable farmers in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, increase our local food supply, and grow our next generation of farmers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/gofarm-hawaii\/\">Read more <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories on the GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> program.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, a collaborative effort involving <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> (<abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>), <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> and <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s Agribusiness Incubator Program, provides a comprehensive and practical production and business training program, and connects aspiring farmers with <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> experts, existing farmers and the local agriculture community. There are six training sites statewide that support farmers and individuals who want to establish businesses in the agricultural industry.<\/p>\n<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has been addressing the issue of food security long before the COVID-19 health crisis. Since 2012, it has trained more than 370 aspiring farmers, helping to reduce <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s dependence on imported food and increase food sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/NewsLetter\/gofarm-gets-paid\">Read more on the <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoFarm <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has been addressing the issue of food security long before the COVID-19 health crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222,212,1411,1416,811,71,9,66],"class_list":["post-130132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-agriculture","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-gofarm-hawaii","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130132","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=130132"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233071,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130132\/revisions\/233071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}