2010 Conference Highlights

A list of the Sponsor, Tradeshow Exhibitors and Heroes of Agriculture Food and the Environment award winners can be found in the Conference Program. The agenda and speaker bios for the events on both Thursday and Friday are also in the Conference Program.

PDF of 2010 Conference Program

PDF of 2010 Locavore Luncheon Menu

Several of the presenters from Thursday and Friday provided their materials and power points for this archive space. We hope this information is useful for you. If no materials have been provided, where possible a web link has been added.

Key Note Speaker – Tim La Salle, link to video on web

Henry Curtis of Disappearing News videotaped this presentation
http://vimeo.com/15679539 (Beyond Sustainable Agriculture on Vimo)

Luncheon Speaker – Stephanie Whalen, PowerPoint pdf

SWhalen_LunchKeynote.pdf

The Next Crop: Educating youth to become farmers and ag- literate citizens

CKinoshita_UHManoa_NextCrop.pdf

MJadulang_DOE_NextCrop.pdf

NRedfeather_SchoolGardens_NextCrop.mov

WSteiner_UHHilo_NextCrop.pdf

Follow the Water: Hawaii's Drought Dilemma

CAnderson_FollowTheWater.pdf

NFujii_DroughtMitigation.pdf

KKaneshiro_IntelesenseTechnologies.pdf

KKodama_DroughtMonitoring.pdf

Integrated Farming Systems: Growing more with less through Natural Farming and Aquaponics

CTamaru_Aquaponics_atCTAHR.pdf

BKFox_Aquaponics_atWCC.pdf

EWeinert_NaturalFarming.pdf

Optimizing Hawaii Crops for Food Self Sufficiency: Import Replacements and Invasive Species

TRadovich_ImportReplacement_PeatMoss.pdf

TRadovich_ImportReplacements_Peppers.pdf

JKorzak_InvasiveSpecies.pdf

Farmer Adoption and Implementation of Conservation Practices – A Key to Achieving Sustainability

MCummings_ConservationPractices_Recyle&Compost.pdf

GRoss_ConservationPractices_KupaaFarm.pdf

JMcHugh_ConservationPractices_Adopt&Implement.pdf

AFares_ConservationPractices_CoverCropBMP.pdf

Speed Dating Presentations

ABrisley_WorkTradeMentoring.pdf

CEverson_CTAHR Information Sheet.pdf

JHunt_Bioichar.pdf

SPeterson_USDA-FSA.pdf

Hawaii Biomass & Bioenergy Workshop, link to USDA Web page with all presentations

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=ENERGY&navtype=MS (United States Department of Agriculture - Energy)

If you did not have a chance to visit the web tools for connecting here are the links to those sites:

Ainability www.ainability.org/

Hawai‘i Homegrown Food Network www.hawaiihomegrown.net/

Kanu Hawai‘i www.kanuhawaii.org/

Malama Kaua‘i www.malamakauai.org/index.php

Maui Food Web www.mauifoodweb.com/

Policy Ninja www.policyninja.org/

Additional Media Coverage of Interest

DKoga_StarAdvertiser_HawaiiFarmFuture_FertileFields.pdf

HCurtis_Disappeared News_ConferenceSummary.pdf

MCheng_HonoluluWeekly_AGatheringtoGrowOn.pdf

MLevine_CivilBeat_CelebratingChange.pdf

TYee_Examiner.com_HerosofAgAwardsList.pdf

The conference included just over 403 registrants over the two days of sessions and swelled to 427 (sold out) for the special All Hawaii Products Luncheon. During the twenty-one plenary, lunch and concurrent sessions 71 speakers presented, with many favorable comments about the educational sessions received.

The attendee profiles were:

Producers: farm/ranch – 23.5%

Producers: nursery – 2.1%

Ag Related Business – 12.3%

University / Extension – 10.1%

Federal/State/County Government – 20.5%

Nonprofit Organization – 15.5%

Student – 3.5%

Other – 12.3%

There were 34 exhibitors at the tradeshow and the Hokulani Suites 4 & 5 always were buzzing with conversations and laughter (and good food and coffee!). We provided 37 scholarships, which contributed to greater attendance from farmer’s teachers and students. Our partnerships with the US Department of Agriculture and the Hawaii Rural Development Council added two interesting and relevant tracks on the second day- Hawaii Biomass & Bioenergy Workshop and A Summit on Rural Hawaii respectively.

The evaluations indicated most were pleased with the speakers and the program content, the location and hospitality and the communications and logistics. There were several comments about the quality of the networking opportunities because of the diversity of the attendees and the relaxed nature of the venue. As well, there were concerns about the remote location and the added costs of cars and resort hotels rates. Many were also happy to see the awards program back. We will certainly review all the evaluation comments when we begin to plan for 2012. Keep an eye on the Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawaii’s facebook page to learn of our planning efforts.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honolulu-HI/Agricultural-Leadership-Foundation-of-Hawaii/125302114153027?ref=sgm

And please visit this web page so that you can acknowledge all who made this event possible:

http://www.hawaiiagconference.org/sponsors.htm

Mahalo for your interest in this event!