Bill Watch: Growing Support For Farm to School

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Even as acres of farmland lay fallow, Hawaii imports the vast majority of its food.

Hawaii legislators are starting to take steps to change that, even if they're moving slowly. Among the bills still alive are farm-to-school measures that would put local produce into cafeterias.

But for a leading environmental spokesman the agenda has been full of tweaks and fixes rather than aggressive overhauls.

"It has been a frustrating session and it seems like it's been a much slower year than one would have expected with a Democratic administration," Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter Director Robert Harris told Civil Beat Thursday. "There wasn't the level of energy or enthusiasm one would have expected."

Dozens of bills related to agriculture and natural resource protection were introduced in January. Civil Beat has identified key proposals, some of which are still green and some of which died on the vine:

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