Hawaii residents would buy more local eggs if they could find them — and they’re willing to pay a premium for freshness, a recent food sustainability survey shows.
That finding meshes nicely with plans for a solar-powered egg farm in central Oahu that would start with 300,000 hens and possibly expand to 1 million egg-layers.
It would move the islands closer to self-sufficiency in egg production and consumption, something Hawaii hasn’t experienced since the 1970s.
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