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Kahealani Garcia, a junior, and Chapter Secretary for the Future Farmers of America at Lahainaluna High School participated in the 2019 Washington Leadership Conference from July 15 to 21, 2019 in Washington D.C.

This purchase represents A&B’s next step toward reinvesting proceeds from the $262 million sale of approximately 41,000 acres of agricultural farmland on Maui.

Mahi Pono, LLC, today announced the appointment of Larry Nixon as General Manager. Nixon will be managing the company’s farming operations on Maui.

The Agriculture in the Classroom program devoted two days of education for second graders representing 15 schools and nearly 1,000 students.

Alexander & Baldwin’s new Kūlōlio Ranch is a grass-fed cattle pasturing operation that is situated on 4,000 acres of former sugar land in Central Maui.

The forum is for candidates running for Maui County Council, and will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, July 27 at the Baldwin High School.

For the first three months of 2016, Kahului, the largest Neighbor Island port in terms of volume, was down 1.9%.

The nonprofit Maui Orchid Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary and sponsored a tagline contest among its membership, which has increased to 143 with the recent addition of 44 members.

The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui will offer a workshop on Korean Natural Farming, the healthiest, cleanest way to raise pigs and chickens, on Dec. 4 and 5, 2015, from 9 to 4 p.m.

The Kohala Center is offering a two-day workshop at Maui at the University of Hawai‘i Maui College on Nov. 6 and 7. to train new and seasoned fruit and vegetable growers to meet food-safety standards and the needs of wholesale markets. Register by Nov. 2.

These “quick and dirty” farming and gardening sessions are designed with the busy, working person in mind—not too much time needs to be invested, but a bounty of information will be offered.

The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui at UH Maui College will offer the “Native Plant Roadshow” beginning on Sept. 22, and running four Tuesday afternoons from 3 to 5 p.m.

The Maui County Farm Bureau’s new TV show, “Kokua Ag: Growing Our Future Together,” will air on Akakū Channel 55 on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 9 p.m. It will re-air on the same channel on Friday, Sept. 11, at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 12, at 1 p.m.; and on Sunday, Sept. 13, at 1 p.m.

Pono Grown Farm Center in Makawao will present “Planting for Your Future,” a four-part series on designing, planting and maintaining a diverse fruit tree orchard, taught by Evan Ryan one Saturday morning per month beginning Aug. 15 from 9 a.m to 12.30 p.m.

Longer dedications will have greater discounts to encourage long-term agricultural use and to attempt to minimize ‘gentleman-farmers,’ or those who use farming as a way to obtain tax breaks, according to Hokama’s announcement.