Koho'ia Sustainable Agriculture Training Project (2011-2012)

The Koho'ia Sustainable Agriculture Training Project received support from the Lanie Albrecht Foundation ($51,426.00). Young adults from low-income communities engaged in a job-readiness, sustainable agriculture training program. During the first phase (2011-2012) of a larger four-year project, the generous gift bought a transport van, a tractor and attachments, and a rototiller. The training project, in partnership with a generous donation of a plot of land for farming by the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources/Magoon Research Station, further assisted participants’ awareness of entry into Hawai‘i’s food services industry, one of our state’s largest industries and currently in need of workers.