Hawaiʻi CC feeds hungry families, grows future farmers

On a glorious, sunny April morning in Pepeʻekeo on the Hamakua Coast of Hawaiʻi Island, about 15 Hawaiʻi Community College students harvested more than 50 lbs. of bananas to feed the community.
They made quick work of chopping down the banana trees and reducing them to mulch, before washing, drying and packing the fruit at the college’s 3-acre farm Mauliola (thriving or healthy) and then loading it into their van for delivery in Hilo.
“It’s been actually life changing to have a program in which you’re hands-on every single day,” said student Kristen Decoito.
Since 2023, Hawaiʻi CC has donated more than 1,000 lbs of fresh produce from Mauliola to the Hawaiʻi Food Basket.
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