Preserving Prime Farmland so Future Generations Can Enjoy a Sustainable Hawai‘i

Some of the best and most productive farmland left on O`ahu will soon be history if we give David Murdock, owner of Castle & Cooke, permission to build 5,000 houses on Koa Ridge.  Together with projects already approved in Central O`ahu -Waiawa by Gentry and Royal Kunia- it's a repeat of a failed 20th century policy: urban sprawl.

Ours would hardly be the first civilization to destroy its best farmland en route to...