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Hawai'i's First Large-Scale Urban Farm is Planted in Kaka'ako

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Wayne Yoshioka
Published January 13, 2014 at 3:32 PM HST
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Robbie Fukuhara and Mitchell Loo dig one of 654 holes for taro plantings
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Andrew Dedrick waters the newly planted taro cuttings.
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Volunteer, Rachel Elias from Kailua, plants a taro cutting
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The Urban Farm on Ala Moana Boulevard between Keawe and South Streets
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Taro planted
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Urban Farm Hawai'i co-founders, Nate Ortiz, Mitchell Loo and Andrew Dedrick planted the state's first large-scale urban farm in Kaka'ako. "Where the produce meets the pavement."

Hawai’i’s first large-scale Urban Garden was planted this weekend in Kaka’ako.  HPR’s Wayne Yoshioka has been tracking the progress of this first and only garden of its kind in the state. 
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Wayne Yoshioka
Wayne Yoshioka is an award-winning journalist who has worked in television, print and radio in Hawaiʻi. He also has been on both sides of politics as a state departmental appointee and political/government reporter. He covered Hurricane Iwa (1982) as a TV reporter; was the State Department of Defense/Civil Defense spokesperson for Hurricane Iniki (1992); and, commanded a public affairs detachment in Afghanistan (2006). He has a master's degree in Communication from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and is a decorated combat veteran (Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and 22 other commendation/service medals). He resides in Honolulu.
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