DEPARTMENT OF
Family and Consumer Sciences
Students from the Horticulture Society joined staff volunteers recently to clean up the St. John Courtyard garden and discuss its future. Their reward: free pizza.
CTAHR organized a sweetpotato growers meeting featuring mainland experts and yield-boosting virus-tested ‘Okinawan’ planting materials.
As state veterinarian and head of the Animal Industry Division at the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture, Raquel Wong keeps animal diseases we don’t have out of the islands and deals with those we do.
Alumna Francesca “Frankie” Koethe promotes land stewardship as a conservation assistant with the O‘ahu Resource Conservation and Development Council.
Low-water, nitrogen-fixing, tasty cowpeas are a potential niche crop for Hawai‘i producers, as Junior Extension Agent Jensen Uyeda recently demonstrated.
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