New time and location for Kilauea’s Saturday Farmer’s Market. Starting today, the market starts at 9am and is located next to Banana Joe’s and Kauai Mini Golf, just off Kuhio Highway. This morning’s event consisted of a dozen or so vendors with a healthy variety of local fruits, vegetables, starter plants and more.

With plenty of parking, a beautiful setting and an earlier starting time, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this market flourish in the coming months.

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A consortium of nearly 300,000 organic farmers and seed distributors are turning the tables on global agrichemical and genetically modified (GM) seed giant Monsanto and are suing the litigious company in the hope that the courts will step in where the government has failed to act.

The Atlantic reports …

In a press release, the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) said, “The organic plaintiffs were forced to sue preemptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should their crops ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed.” PUBPAT is asking the federal court in Manhattan to declare that if organic farmers’ crops are ever contaminated by Monsanto’s GM seed, they need not fear also being accused of patent infringement.

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From NPR …

“Food, like anything else in the physical world, obeys the laws of physics,” explains Nathan Mhyrvold, co-author of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. “The fact is when you whisk together some oil and lemon juice and make mayonnaise, you’re using the principles of physics and chemistry there, too. I think that understanding how those principles affect cooking helps you cook better.”

That scientific approach to food is part of the modernist movement, which strives to understand science in the kitchen and to use new technologies and techniques to change how people eat and appreciate food.

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Source: Linda Wertheimer, NPR