Plant The Trees
Plant The Trees
Harry Greene
Market Development for a Heritage Agroforestry Crop – Breadfruit in Hawaiʻi
51 minutes Posted Oct 29, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
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Take a listen to this phenomenal interview with Dana Shapiro, CEO of the Hawai‘i Ulu Cooperative. Ulu is the Hawaiian word for Breadfruit, which is a tree crop starch that traveled across the Pacific Ocean in canoes, and can still grow straight out of lava rock. And the conversation got. good. and I think we did a solid job of profiling this case study in rebuilding a food system with agroforestry. Hawai‘i imports 90% of its food, while half its farmland is fallow. Meanwhile, Dana and her tea...