Farmers’ Market News
January 26, 2012 – Vol. 4 Issue 4
Aloha Market Friend!
Cacao Fest is upon us! It is time so partake in celebration of the cacao pod and all things chocolate that come thereafter. We hope to see you Sunday in Haleiwa for your 3rd Annual Cacao Festival… bring your appetites!
Here are some of our vendor offerings for this Sunday’s Cacao Fest:
- Baker Dudes are baking up Chocolate Croissants hot out of the oven!
- Lyndi from Divine Delights indulges us with Raw Cacao Brownies and Raw Chocolate Pudding with a nut crust!
- Happy’s Cafe is delighting us again with her Chocolate Salad Dressing!
- If you are thirsty Haloa Farms will quench your thirst with Cacao Smoothies!
- Hawaiian Cheesecake will be bringing extra Waialua Chocolate Cheesecakes sold by the cupcake or the whole pie…yum!
- Taro Delight‘s ooey gooey Chocolate Taro Espresso Brownie is rich and so, so decadent, a must!
- Onopops, for the kid at heart, will cool you down with a dark Chocolate 5 Spice, Mexican Chocolate, Chocolate Apple Banana and Kula Strawberry dipped in Waialua Estate Chocolate pops!
- Da Kine Kettlecorn is popping up Cacao-covered Kettlecorn with brown sugar!
- Enjoy a sweet Romeo & Juliet Crepe with Chocolate, strawberries snd whipped cream from Le Crepe Café!
- Devour Fresh From Haleiwa’s Mole’ Chicken Wings!
- And when you are done, It’s Soap will wash you clean with Chocolate Soap!
And that is just a small sampling of the offerings this Sunday:
Lots of exciting things to do once you’ve eaten you way through the Fest… like take a tour to the Waialua Estate Cacao Orchards! (sign up for 9:30, 10:30 or 11:30 shuttle, only $5!) Or Meet Patricia Bragg as she talks about the Braggs Healthy Lifestyle at 10 & 11! And be sure to watch the Madre Chocolate Demo on their Bean to Bar Chocolate Making Process! (9, 10, 11, 12) Meet Melanie Boudar, creator of Sweet Paradise Chocolate and take home some beauties for your sweetie! Talk to the growers and chocolate makers on the cutting edge of Hawaii’s cacao industry! And be sure to taste the samplings of Ben Tabious, Executive Pastry Chef at Turtle Bay Resort!
We will see you this weekend at Ala Moana Farmers’ Market (Saturday 8-12), Hawaii Kai Farmers’ Market (Saturday 9-1) and Haleiwa Farmers’ Market (Sunday 9-1)!
LIFE AT THE MARKETS:
Patricia Bragg Celebrates AMFM!
Naked Cow Dairy
goes IndieGoGo for Cheese!
Naked Cow Dairy is a women-owned, family run cow dairy on the island of Oahu whose mission is to keep the art of caring for dairy cows alive and well in Hawaii and to bring Island-made signature local fresh-churned butter and artisan cheeses to the table. Hand-crafted dairy products ensure the health and happiness of the cows as well as the high quality of the product.
This campaign’s goal is to raise $15,000 to equip the kitchen with a heating element for their 230 gallon cheese vat & low-temp pasteurizer. This part costs about $7000 to purchase and install. In addition they need to build and outfit a cheese aging room that will keep the delicious cheeses at the right temperature and humidity until they go to market. The equipment and buildout of the space we need is estimated to cost about $8000. With these parts of the puzzle in place they will be on the way to making Hawaii cheesy!! click here to learn more
Yogurt Tycoon Tackles GMOs
Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg has a new mission: Get the government to label genetically modified foods.
By Barry Estabrook
January 17, 2012
The healthy food movement just got a CE-Yo.
Gary Hirshberg, the head of Stonyfield Farm, announced that he was turning the operation of the Londonderry, New Hampshire- based organic yogurt company over to Walt Freese, who has held executive positions at Ben & Jerry’s in Burlington, Vermont, and Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colorado.
Hirshberg (who called himself CE-Yo at Stonyfield) is staying with the company as chairman, but will give up day-to-day operations to focus on the Just Label It Campaign, a year-old effort to convince the government to require foods containing genetically modified (GMO) ingredients to be labeled.
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Keep Our Small Farmers Farming!
Aloha and welcome to the new legislative session! There are many bills of interest to anyone who eats locally grown produce this session. Please take a moment to sign up for updates, so you can submit testimony online or in person. These bills come up quickly. Ag bills are typically heard Tuesdays and Fridays, however they may be sent to other committees and heard on different days.
Go to http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/ You will see a series of icons:
Click Hearing Notification, and type in the bills numbers. Senate Bills start with SB, House Bills start with HB. They will send an email to you anytime your bill goes to committee.
Here is what we are following:
SUPPORT:
- HB2065/SB2027 – establishes the Hawaii Good Agricultural Practices Certification Program
- HB2031 & HB2034 – Requires labeling of GMO foods
- SB2096 – Establishes a Food Safety Compliance Program
- HB2703 – Establishes Food Sustainability goals to increase local food production for local consumption
OPPOSE:
- HB1947 – Food Safety and Security Program – authorizes HDoA to make rules for food safety and to build port facilities at cost estimated at least 1/2 billion $$ of public funds for imported foods
- HB1832 – Food Safety – authorizes HDoA to make rules for food safety inspections
HB1939 – Ag Development and Food Security – same as HB1947
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