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How did first trees arrive in Hawaii?. Hawaii Tribune Herald, 11/1/09.
Celebrate trees with giveaways, sales. Honolulu Advertiser, 11/2/09.
Kona coffee, the aroma of aloha, reigns. Hawaii Tribune Herald, 11/1/09.
Fanciful gardens emerge in a city of tan and gray. Honolulu Advertiser, 11/1/09.
Controlling Ripening Fruit. News@UH, 10/30/09.

Home and garden calendar . Honolulu Advertiser, 10/24/09.
Education program & class schedule. Lyon Arboretum - UH, Fall 2009.
Growing Green classes. Outreach College, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa.
Agriculture Calendar of Events. Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture.
Culinary calendar. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/7/09.
Health calendar. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/29/09.

Change may curb diabetes risk. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/30/09.
Senior fair to focus on healthful living. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/30/09.
Puttering around yields better mental health. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 10/26/09.
Keep brain strong with supplements. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/22/09.
Comparing apples, oranges and kiwi fruit. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/22/09.

LED light bulb shows promise over CFLs. Honolulu Advertiser, 11/2/09.
'Common sense' technology. Honolulu Advertiser, 11/2/09.
Sunetric vehicle powers green events. Honolulu Advertiser, 10/19/09.
Save those plastic lids, caps. Hawaii Tribune Herald, 10/18/09.
For the Environment . Honolulu Advertiser, 11/2/09.

Starting a simple hydroponic garden . E-School Project.
Hydroponics is gaining popularity . Hawaii Going Green, KITV.com.
Hydroponic Floating Systems . University of Florida.
Building a Floating Hydroponic Garden . University of Florida.
Hydroponic Lettuce . You Tube.
Hydroponic Lettuce Farm - Georgia Farm Monitor . You Tube.

3 New Farm Bots Programmed to Pick, Plant and Drive. Popular Mechanics. 9/09.
Small agricultural robots are the future . Robo Days 09. 9/16/09.
Agricultural/food processing applications . Autonomous & Mobile Robotics. 7/16/09.
Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands . ZDNet. 6/2/09.
Agricultural Robots A Real Possibility In The Near Future . Impact Lab. 6/1/09.
Green-thumbed robots: the future of sustainable precision agriculture?. gizmag. 3/26/09.

DNA, nanotechnology to guide plant breeding . The Packer. 4/29/09.
21st Century Agriculture Video Lessons.
Iowa State researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming. Iowa State University.
Vertical farms of the future?. Impact Lab.
5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City Farms: Sustainable, Ecological and Agricultural Skyscrapers. WebUrbanist.
In the year 2013. Farm Industry News.
Driverless Tractors: Case IH Predicts the Future of Precision Agriculture.

CTAHR Cooperative Extension Service. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Free CTAHR Publications. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
For-Sale CTAHR Publications. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
CTAHR Videos. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
CTAHR Databases and Other Information Sources. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Grow Plants in your Dorm, Home, or Office. Written with A. Kaufman and A. Ohama.
Ecotourism--Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden
E-mail Etiquette
Flower Arranging
Growing Plants Indoors under Supplemental Lighting
Orchid Care
Running Effective Meetings
Tabletop Water Fountains
Terrariums

CTAHR Research News. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Research News----K. Kobayashi

News Releases, Reports, Weather

Hawaii Drought Monitor. Commission on Water Resource Management, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Statistics of Hawaii Agriculture. Monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports on the number of farms, acreage, yield, production, farm price, and value of fruits and nuts, vegetables, and flowers and nursery products. Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture.
New Pest Advisory. Advisories issued by the Plant Pest Control Branch regarding new pests that have become established in Hawaii. Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture.
News Releases. Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture.
Overview of major regulations affecting pesticide use in Hawaii. There are as many as 20 Federal regulations and many more State laws and rules. Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Pesticides Branch.

Hilo, Hawaii

Kahului, Hawaii

Kailua Kona, Hawaii

Kaunakakai, Hawaii

Lanai City, Hawaii

Lihue, Hawaii

The Farmer's Bookshelf was developed by K. Kobayashi and H.C. Bittenbender, and is maintained by Kent Kobayashi, H.C. Bittenbender, and I. Scott Campbell, Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dale Uno, Kathy Lu, and Elsie Kawahara for the administrative maintenance of the Farmer's Bookshelf. We thank Hector Valenzuela for the vegetable sections and Kent Fleming for the cost of analysis spreadsheets. Our appreciation to Russell Yost for the use of his server these past years and to Hu Li for managing the server.

The HTML version of the Farmer's Bookshelf was originally written by Tiffany Lo and updated by Steve Luh.