ULU
Honolulu, HAWAII — The ‘Ama’ (outrigger) Initiative has been launched by the Pacific Business Center Program (PBCP) via its Multi-Purpose Business Incubator (MPBI) project. As a metaphor, the Ama is used as an economic outrigger to support and prevent the capsizing of Hawaii’s primary economic ship...
Big Island, HAWAII — The Hawaii Ulu Producers Cooperative is made up of about 100 farmers — most of them on the Big Island — who grow ulu, Hawaii’s indigenous breadfruit.
"It's part of the culture of Hawaii and that's something we don't want lost," the cooperative's Andrew Trump said.
To work...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Land Grant Division hosted a Breadfruit Agroforestry Workshop at the ACNR Conference Room on April 24. This professional development workshop built upon the time-tested...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With off island investors expressing interest in locally produced flour from breadfruit and other local crops — such as green bananas — Dream Builders Agriculture Products has expanded its operations, to include technical training for staff as well as buying breadfruit...
Honolulu, HI — The Hawaii 2018 Global Breadfruit, Technology & Health Summit being hosted by the University of Hawaii Pacific Business Center Program (PBCP) will be held at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Lai’e, Oahu, Hawai’i, October 15-17.
Inaugurated in 2016, it is the third consecutive...
![Su’a Alexander Eli Jennings outside of the retrofitted freight container back in October 2015 where raw ulu is processed and dried to be milled into gluten free, low glycemic index flour. The container operates on solar panels to provide renewable energy for the retrofitted container. [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ulu%20photo_0.jpg?itok=11pvUaP_ "Su’a Alexander Eli Jennings outside of the retrofitted freight container back in October 2015 where raw ulu is processed and dried to be milled into gluten free, low glycemic index flour. The container operates on solar panels to provide renewable energy for the retrofitted container. [SN file photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An entrepreneur and chef from the Virgin Islands has been in American Samoa to find out the secret behind locally produced breadfruit flour.
Todd Manley said after two devastating hurricanes in the Virgin Islands and a major distillery company packing up, the US...