{"id":20087,"date":"2013-10-07T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=20087"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:33:41","slug":"benefits-abound-from-popular-kapiolani-cc-farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/07\/benefits-abound-from-popular-kapiolani-cc-farmers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits abound from popular <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> Farmers&#8217; Market"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9aRMi1Ww3U4\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/object\/farmersmarket.html\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College Farmers&#8217; Market<\/a> is the place to be on Saturday mornings. <\/p>\n<p>Pretty amazing, when you consider its humble beginnings in 2003. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We started with maybe a hundred people coming,&rdquo; said Michael Kliks, the owner of the M&#257;noa Honey Company. &ldquo;Now there is sometimes maybe eight, nine, ten thousand people coming here.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The Farmers&#8217; Market is a partnership between the <a href=\"http:\/\/hfbf.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Farm Bureau<\/a> and the Culinary Institute of the Pacific at <a href=\"http:\/\/kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/page\/home\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> and has become a destination event. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s popular with locals and tourists and serves many purposes&#8212;the most important is creating an environment where culinary students and local farmers interact on a regular basis. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to teach the students firsthand, while they are in school, the importance of supporting our local farmers, using local foods,&rdquo; said <strong>Conrad Nonaka<\/strong>, director of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges <a href=\"http:\/\/culinary.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\">Culinary Institute of the Pacific<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Getting a chance to meet these people, and see where the food is coming from and many of them offer to take you to their farm and tour,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College culinary student <strong>Trevor Jackson<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of them have come up and see us and it just, it opens a whole new avenue of where their food comes from, what you can do with it, how healthy it is,&rdquo; said Kara Caryle of Maunawili Greens, one of the vendors at the market. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You see the people who put their hands in the dirt or, you know, go out and collect the honey and stuff,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> culinary student <strong>Marco Kallies<\/strong>. &ldquo;You want to use that product the best you can because you have more respect for it.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The customers also get to rub elbows with the local farmers and food vendors. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They can ask us questions,&rdquo; said Caryle. &ldquo;How it is grown.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love it,&rdquo; said Rosemary Liu, a Kapi&#699;olani Farmer&#8217;s Market regular since 2004. &ldquo;I really think it is a great opportunity. You get to know the vendors. They get to know you. It is a really wonderful community feeling.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20111\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcc-sandwich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcc-sandwich.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcc-sandwich-260x198.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary students operate one of the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Farmers&#8217; Market booths.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 60 farmers and food vendors are at the market bright and early each week, it officially opens at 7 a.m. <\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> culinary students operate one of the food booths. They&#8217;re in charge of everything&#8212;the menu, preparing and serving the food, the money. It&#8217;s part of the agreement that established the market. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It gives us a real chance to communicate with the people and see what they want and get instant feedback from them,&rdquo; said Jackson. <\/p>\n<p>The food booth provides a valuable experience for those considering a culinary career. The profits from the college&#8217;s booth help fund activities such as student culinary tours to France and Thailand, which is just another benefit from the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Farmer&#8217;s Market. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It creates a synergy and benefit to all when we can make something happen, that benefits the farmers, benefit the food vendors that utilize local products, benefit education and benefit tourism and most of all, benefitting the community,&rdquo; said Nonaka. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Farmers&#8217; Market has grown into a destination event where culinary students, local farmers and the community interact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222,184,181,63],"class_list":["post-20087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-agriculture","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-institute-of-the-pacific","tag-kapiolani-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087","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=20087"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124193,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions\/124193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}