{"id":55655,"date":"2017-01-31T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=55655"},"modified":"2020-03-13T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:08:12","slug":"new-course-at-uh-hilo-focuses-on-agricultural-and-food-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/31\/new-course-at-uh-hilo-focuses-on-agricultural-and-food-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural and food tourism focus of new 东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo course"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Kimberly “Brooke” Hansen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new course designed to help Hawaiʻi<\/span> move forward in local food production and tourism is being offered this semester at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Hilo<\/a>. The course on Agricultural and Food Tourism is covering the momentum of foodie movements—locavore, Hawaiʻi<\/span> Regional Cuisine, farm-to-table, food festivals—to examine how they can support the flourishing tourist market.<\/p>\n

Guiding the course are themes of sustainability, cultural respect and teaching people through the metaphors of “island as earth” and “we are all in one canoe.”<\/p>\n

“The course is geared towards hearing from people who have already engaged with food and ag tourism and those who wish to,” says Kimberly “Brooke” Hansen<\/a><\/strong>, an adjunct faculty in anthropology who is teaching the course.<\/p>\n

Guest speakers for the course include Audrey Wilson (acclaimed food writer), Tom Menezes (senior vice president of Hawaiian Crown), Pomai Weigert (Hawaiʻi<\/span> AgriTourism Association), Luisa Castro (master preserver and food safety expert), and Nancy Ginter-Miller (Produce to Product, Inc.).<\/p>\n

“We tour local farms and foodie venues and explore multiple career paths from consulting and marketing to entrepreneurial opportunities in food and ag tourism,” explains Hansen.<\/p>\n

The students in the course are an eclectic mix of traditional students exploring career options and non-traditional students who have experience farming crops such as avocados, mangoes and lychee.<\/p>\n

The class also has Native Hawaiian students who want to embrace cultural tourism through food and heritage plants.<\/p>\n

“Toward that end we will have a screening on March 6 of the acclaimed film Sons of Hālawa<\/em>, about a family on Molokaʻi<\/span> who revitalized their relations with culture and land through a sustainable tourism enterprise,” says Hansen.<\/p>\n

For more about Hansen and the agricultural and food tourism class, see 东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—A 东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Stories article<\/em><\/p>\n

—By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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