State Laws/Kauai County Ordinances​​ Comprehensive Stormwater Quality Protection, Only recyclable materials can be imported into state, Recycling bins at all “big box stores” and supermarkets, Will support only sustainable agriculture (as defined by US Code/USDA) pursuits and increase local food production Basic Agricultural Concepts/NEEDS Food security – need to become food secure in 10-15 years or sooner Need to re-establish or restore traditional taro production Need to restore natural instream flows to promote both taro and fisheries production-in both streams and ocean; and to protect water quality Cannot have resilient communities

Merry Christmas ohana!  2019 was a buffalo stampede…it took 2.5 years of full-court-press to get the State Dept of Ag to realize these are domestic dairy water buffalo, and the breed has been domesticated for 5,000 years. The photo above is about 1 month old; the buffalo gals are the dominant Ku’uipo (far right; who just had a female calf 3 weeks ago), the 3 calves are Kane (a bull calf), Kala and Buffy (both cow calves) and not shown in the photo little Ua (rain/life) born just after this photo