{"id":9946,"date":"2023-11-13T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:56:29","slug":"2023-hidoe-seeks-feedback-and-product-information-in-effort-to-increase-locally-sourced-food-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/2023-hidoe-seeks-feedback-and-product-information-in-effort-to-increase-locally-sourced-food-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"HIDOE seeks feedback and product information in effort to increase locally sourced food in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department\u2019s Farm and School Program aims to enhance food sustainability in Hawai\u2018i and aligns with Act 175, which focuses on improving the health of students while supporting local farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hawai\u2018i State Department of Education (HIDOE) is inviting interested vendors such as farmers and distributors to provide product information and feedback to assist in increasing locally sourced food in public schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HIDOE has posted a Request for Information (RFI) for potential vendors that could include farmers, ranchers, food hubs, processors, cooperatives, distributors and others. The information gathered will help in developing the subsequent Request of Proposals (RFP) under the state\u2019s procurement process to provide HIDOE school cafeterias with local produce, proteins and packaged foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department is the state\u2019s largest institutional consumer of food products, serving over 100,000 students a day. Current locally sourced items in schools statewide consist of ground beef, tomato, papaya and green onion. O\u2018ahu schools also have local cucumbers and Hawai\u2018i Island schools have local bananas. In an effort to increase local menu offerings to students, the Department most recently featured local \u2018uala, (sweet potato) and poi made from local kalo in school lunches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department\u2019s Farm and School Program aims to enhance food sustainability in Hawai\u2018i and aligns with M\u00e0n 175<\/a>, t\u1eadp trung v\u00e0o vi\u1ec7c c\u1ea3i thi\u1ec7n s\u1ee9c kh\u1ecfe c\u1ee7a h\u1ecdc sinh \u0111\u1ed3ng th\u1eddi h\u1ed7 tr\u1ee3 n\u00f4ng d\u00e2n \u0111\u1ecba ph\u01b0\u01a1ng. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RFI has been posted to the Hawaii Awards and Notices Data\u00a0System (HANDS) and is due by 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Department\u2019s Farm and School Program aims to enhance food sustainability in Hawai\u2018i and aligns with Act 175, which focuses on improving the health of students while supporting local farmers. The Hawai\u2018i State Department of Education (HIDOE) is inviting interested vendors such as farmers and distributors to provide product information and feedback to assist in […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16782,18222,2417,13765,14121,9777","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Chanel Honda","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/author\/chanel-hondak12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":306,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":306,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 23:52:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18944,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions\/18944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}