Mauna Kea Bananas and Hamakua Springs an innovative, award winning, and eco-friendly family-owned farm,
Green Point Nurseries, a tropical cut flower farm and wholesaler featuring anthuriums and many other tropical flowers and foliage, and
Hawaii Pride, a facility that uses an electronic beam irradiator to treat fresh produce to meet quarantine requirements for fresh produce shipped to the U.S. mainland. These facilities are not normally available to tourists through commercial tours.
The tour will continue to village of Kalapana that was devastated by lava flows between 1986 and 1991.

The Schedule:

0730	Depart from Hilo Hawaiian Hotel by bus
0730 - 0800	Travel to Pepeekeo, HI
0800 - 0930	Visit Hamakua Springs Country Farms (Richard Ha host, banana and greenhouse vegetables)
0930 - 1000	Travel to Panaewa
1000 - 1100	Visit Green Point Nursery (Host Eric Tanouye, tropical flower farm and shipper)
1100 - 1115	Travel to Keaau, HI
1115 - 1215	Visit Hawaii Pride, E-Beam facility for irradiation of produce for quarantine treatment (Host Eric Weinert)
1215 - 1245	Drive to Kalapana
1245 - 1415	Lunch and visit Kalapana lava flows (From about 1987 ? 1993 lava flows overran much of the village of Kalapana. The famous Kaimu Black Sands beach is now about ? miles inland from the new shoreline.)
14 15 - 1500	Drive back to Hotel

EDEN 2007 Annual Meeting Theme - EDEN: Linked for Preparedness