 Support local agricultural products and local farmers. Of course, it's always better to buy local And I try to buy as much from the local farmers as I can Did a lot that last semester since I went to HPU. We had the farmers market. It was great in the beginning We had about two three farmers that supported their own little business and It was great quality of the products What's your favorite products? Are you more of a vegetable or a kind of both meat and vegetable kind of guy? I'm both, but I do enjoy getting some good fresh vegetables Especially tomatoes. That's my weakness. I love tomatoes Well, let me ask you this given the fact that we get out so many products from from mainland and around the world You know the fact that local produce actually does cost a little bit more does that present a problem to you at all or? Like being a college student price is always a thing we consider But I do get the good feeling of buying local minimizing leakage trying to keep money here in Hawaii and Just the fact that if you buy a local you don't produce as much carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases and It's your little way of contributing to the good costs Where do you seek? You know, where do you seek your food? Is it farmers markets or do you go to specialized stores? How do you how do you find the products? Here it's I try to do the farmers market But it's been more that I've gone to Walmart the past times a safe way But I always try to get either the ecological or the local grown things But back home in Sweden, I try to go to small shops that only do vegetables and Try to get meat that are produced locally Just to keep the greenhouses down Do you think there's enough restaurants that serve local food or do you should there be more or I think we're Not really 50-50 but we're getting close to it And I think it's a big trend that there's more local being considered in because that's what we want more now as the customer and just That cause is very important for all restaurant owners and hotels to just keep it local To keep their customers happy, you know There's been an emphasis from the state and the city About trying to make sure that Hawaii is self-sustaining and the importance of having and preserving agricultural land Particularly in times of disaster yet. We see housing develops kind of spring up all over the place and just wondering if you had any thoughts about that I It's a mixed feeling because Tourism is the biggest industry in Hawaii. So we need more development in certain areas But keeping the North Shore and those small communities as they are is very important too because that will bring out people out there as it is we don't need to build big cities or Larger communities and they already are up there or on the big other islands because that's their uniqueness That's what's going to bring the people out there. The first comeers will be going to Honolulu and Waikiki But third fourth comeers they want to see something else. So they will go and seek take their trip up to North Shore stay there instead of being Waikiki and Making sure that we keep it very local and agricultural neutral Is the biggest thing we can do and keep the Hawaii safe Have you been paying attention in recent articles in the newspaper in on radio? Unfortunately regarding what's called rat lung warm disease. You've seen anything about that and how it's affecting some of our local Local produce. I have not heard about that. Yeah. No, okay. Well, it's not a pleasant subject So we'll leave that for another day. So Walter. I want to thank you very much for speaking with us today I'm Tim Appachal. There's the think tech Hawaii