{"id":5247,"date":"2012-03-23T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T23:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:19:08","slug":"local-first-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/local-first-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Local First program highlights Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Island products"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
\"Students
Some ingredients used in the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College and UH<\/abbr> Hilo \u201cLocal First\u201d program menus come from the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College garden maintained by students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> and the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo have partnered together on Local First<\/a>, a new initiative that aims to support the development of farms and the agricultural industry on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island by maximizing consumption of produce, meats and other locally grown and\/or manufactured products.<\/p>\n

To showcase the high quality and variety of local products available, the dining facilities at UH<\/abbr> Hilo and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College, both in Hilo and Kona, are currently featuring a 100 percent Local First lunch special once a month through April 18.<\/p>\n

The Local First specials are available in the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College’s Manono Campus Cafeteria, the college’s culinary arts program restaurant Bamboo Hale, and at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center, West Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in Kealakekua.<\/p>\n

Currently, 50–60 percent of the products used by the campuses are locally grown, depending on weather and climate. Island grown, grass-fed beef in hamburgers are used daily.<\/p>\n

The effort is not only an attempt to support local farmers and providers, but it’s also an educational opportunity for students. The concept is incorporated into the curriculum for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College’s culinary arts program. Students are planning, preparing and delivering a meal with 100 percent locally grown ingredients while also learning the nutritional, sustainable and economic benefits of utilizing local ingredients and products directly as part of their coursework.<\/p>\n

Some of the ingredients used also come from right outside the back door of the Manono Campus Cafeteria where students in the college’s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Life Styles program maintain a beautiful garden of sugar cane, taro, sweet potato and many herbs.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the Local First program as highlighted last month in Hawaii Tribune-Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dates and menus for the Local First lunch specials are posted online for the Manono Campus Cafeteria, Bamboo Hale, and UH<\/abbr> Center, West Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College and UH<\/abbr> Hilo promote the benefits of locally grown and produced food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[61,236,14],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-uh-in-the-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-uh-center-west-hawaii","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HICC-localfirst-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153061,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/153061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}