Six Big Island farms participated this year in the grant-funded Nutrition Grown Farmers’ Educational Program and Farm Trials. This program was funded largely by the Bell Charitable Foundation. (Access through @altafiber or #BCFBelieves.) Big Island Resource,...
Seven Big Island farms participated this year in the grant-funded Nutrition Grown Farmers’ Educational Program and Farm Trials. The program included Dr. Bogs’ online Perfect Soil course, Zoom meetings, Dr. Bogs’ book–Beyond Organic: Growing for...
Finally Federally Legal In December, the 2018 USA Farm Bill was passed allowing industrial hemp to be legally produced on a federal level. Industrial hemp is defined as cannabis plants with no more than 0.3% THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound in cannabis that is...
Ten years ago, when I was working on my PhD at Colorado State University, I visited the Rocky Mountain National Park. Dying trees everywhere! About half of the forest appeared dead. The question was “Why?”. It has been blamed on pine bark beetles...
Not all microbes are bad. Human bodies contain about as many microbial cells as actual human cells. This is called the human microbiome. We live symbiotically with the microbes. We actually could not live without them! Our microbiome shifts as we change our diet...
Respiratory distress and irritated eyes can be caused by sulfur compounds called sulfites which are present in smog and vog (a combination of volcano smoke and fog). These are real concerns for some Hawai’i residents, especially children living in voggy areas....
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