Welcome to Hallie Cristobal, who has joined the UH Cooperative Extension team in Kaua‘i County as a junior Extension agent in the department of Family and Consumer Science. Hallie grew up on the west side of Kaua‘i in Waimea. She has a BS in Health Promotion from Weber State University in Utah and is currently working online to get a Masters of Education from Capella University.

The “Get to Know…” video series by multimedia specialist Godwin Polendey (Office of Communication Services) is a bite-sized way to find out things you might not have known about recently hired faculty members, like what makes them proud of their departments, what their greatest inspirations are, and what they like to do when they’re not in the classroom. Check out the most recent installment, featuring Melissa Price (Natural Resources and Environmental Management).

A few years ago, local chef extraordinaire and co-founder of Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine Sam Choy had an idea for a new television show: eschewing high-end restaurant kitchens, he would visit the houses of local residents, invade their refrigerators, and whip up delicious dishes from whatever leftovers and neglected ingredients he could find there. His motivation was to decrease food waste by showing ordinary home cooks new ways to put together ‘ono recipes from foods they might otherwise have been tempted to throw away. The takeaway: don’t discount what’s right in front of you—it’s got more possibilities than you can imagine.

Want to learn more about a key crop with potential to weather climate change and give protein to the world? Come to a special presentation from TPSS, “Integrating Targeted and Skim Sequencing in the Molecular Breeding Toolbox” by David Hyten. Date: Wednesday, July 17, Time: 12:00 noon, Location: St. John 106, or through Zoom.

Noa Lincoln (TPSS) recently appeared on a panel on the PBS show Insights discussing the role of indigenous agriculture in our contemporary food and agricultural systems. He defined indigenous agriculture as a constellation of place-adaptive systems that develops in concert with the ecology of the land and the needs of the people, leading to long-lasting and enduring forms of agriculture. Noa is eminently qualified to discuss such systems, since they’re at the heart of his research, teaching, and publications.