Voyaging foods

Grateful for this vibrant life in these islands ✨️here are some of our fav snapshots from life lately in taste & color.💕

✨️1) Kalo leaf n poi

✨️2-3) tea ceremony at MOA Hawaii

✨️4) grounding

✨️5) "just keep planting

✨️ 6) flower mandala at

✨️7) Makapu'u lighthouse hike

✨️8) the old way to carry Kalo captured in art at

✨️9) Princess Nahienaena at Lahaina

✨️10) 'ulu

Small swaps make a BIG DIFFERENCE. 🌾 🔄 🌱

So many people ask us how to start taking action towards the world we want to live in. From food, land to community, in our view, it's all about a back to basics approach.

Reclaiming how our complex carbs & canoe plants are grown and made into meals is a way we wanted to eat better-for-you baked goods, which is one of our goals at

Mahalo for creating this digital guide with 30 easy actions you can do to LEARN + EAT + SUPPORT all things ALOHA ʻĀINA!

Follow & implement these actions
by subscribing to ther new journal—THE DIRT—and get their exclusive ALOHA ʻĀINA guide sent to your inbox.

In preparation for Hawaii's upcoming legislative session, I met with ThinkTech Hawaii and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii to discuss how Hawaii food entrepreneurs plan to increase economic independency through grass roots organizing. Take a listen here and please let me know your thoughts.... https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2023/12/voyaging-foods-owner-tells-how-reforms-could-foster-cottage-foods-businesses/

Voyaging Foods owner tells how reforms could foster cottage foods businesses Hawaii’s local food entrepreneurs could play a key role in making the state more food independent and fostering a sense of community, but there are a few state rules holding them back, according to Brynn Foster, founder of the Oahu-based Voyaging Foods, which is dedicated to perpetuating the cultu...

New shipment for !

Our most popular chocolate Lava Cookie mix has a chewy texture similar to the top of a brownie & is vegan, dairy free & and gluten-free.

Make sure your holiday baking includes flours made in Hawaii like taro flour or breadfruit flour!!

San Diego here we come!

This will be our last port visit before we head home to Hawaiʻi at the end of hurricane season in December.

Kūpuna (ancestor) appreciation is the heart of what Voyaging Foods is.

Honoring the past while bringing forth the knowledge & relevance of ancient ways is needed in today's world.

We are so fortunate to have the blueprints of the past.

Are you listening?

📸 Grandmother Mahealani
Wailuku, Maui | 1929

🧇📩 Exciting Announcements & Events To Share - https://mailchi.mp/2e7ae1fdc7db/exciting-announcements-events-to-share

Ingredient sourcing is a priority to us . This is why our in Lava Cookies we use:
🌱 aluminum-free & corn-free baking powder
🌱 Hawaiian sea salt (not iodionzed salt)
🌱 Hawaiian taro powder
🌱 organic chia seed
🌱 soy-free chocolate chips

The view for the week from the strategic planning meetings for ✨️

Facilitating positive change in our food system takes a village, a community to regenerate the good from the past.

We discuss, plan and exchange ideas on what made Hawaii successful pre-contact.

What were the dynamics the ancients used to sustain themselves in the middle of the ocean? Using these principals builds our lasting relationships & legacy.

Support your local regenerative farmer. 🌱

Join us for the first ever Hawaiʻi FoundHer Experience on May 21 in Haleʻiwa. Located at , weʻre honored to join fellow wāhine-led business .mohala who are innovating the space of island heritage mea ʻai and healing centered on aloha ʻāīna. ⁠
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Part 1: Our Place and Haku Lei 🌸⁠
Ground into the ʻāīna of our tour with guided meditation, acknowledging the ahupuaʻa of Waialua and making laʻi lei. ⁠
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Part 2: Māla Connection 👩🏽‍🌾⁠
Walk with us through the farm and learn about local and Hawaiian agriculture, see the process from raw vegetable to finished product… and taste them! ⁠
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Part 3: E Pā’ina Kākou 🤙🏽⁠
Letʻs share a meal together! Enjoy a sampling of foods sourced straight from . ⁠
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Sign up at Foundher.org/experience (link in bio). Limited space available. And itʻs FREE!⁠
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Tour Details ⁠
Date: May 21, 2022⁠
Duration: 3 Hours (10AM-1PM)⁠
Pickup: Honolulu @ 9AM⁠
Return: Honolulu @ 12:30 pm⁠
🍍 Includes Lunch!

Mahalo to for this opportunity!!!

Feels good stewarding kalo (taro)🌱 grateful for these plants that nourish us in so many ways.

Here's some behind the scenes from our filming today for an upcoming video for

Canoe Plant Flour in every home, restaurant, school, care facility, stores & cafes is the vision. We have big plans for 2022.

Thank you to for covering what Hawaii growers and makers provide in this new phase of responsible tourism. Great work ..........
How can we travel without wrecking havoc? For I got to write about sustainability and responsible tourism. Thank you to Maui’s wonderful makers fighting the good fight. 📸
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Excited to announce Hawaii is now commercially producing 'ulu (Breadfruit flour) in collaboration with & .
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This has been a few years in the making with the support of Atherton Foundation & we are now able to share it with our community!!!
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Stay tuned for more exciting announcements! We are committed to Food Sovereignty and highlighting our cultural crops that feed our community & keep our lands in food production.

The view at .hawaii from the kalo (taro), 'uala (sweet potato) fields in between the heirloom wheat trails in collaboration with 🌱🌱

We are excited to announce we are hiring for 2 positions in collaboration with made possible by the Aloha Connects Innovation.

There is a statewide effort to mitigate the businesses forced to shut down & unemployment in Hawaii during this time. We are feeling the small business love🧡 Check the positions out and apply if interested!🤙🏽
Position begins Nov 15th.
Link in bio!

Recipe challenge Tuesdays!! | 🥄🔪
Here's a recipe from 1892 for a Hawaii favorite called .

Drove around on an island circle tour to a favorite eatery for fresh made kulolo!

Tag us to show your home made kulolo! .

Pô'alima | Friday special 🌱

🍈Steamed & frozen 'ulu & kalo🌟
Add these to soups, stews, stir frys or roast in the oven with some herbs & garlic.
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X is collaborating to create more access & availability for canoe-plants to be in every meal!

Kalo grown by

Hawaiʻi Public Radio
There are so many groups collaborating in Hawaii for food security and we are grateful for our partners in this exciting venture. Our intent is to produce more staple crops and have more access for products like flour.
Please take a listen to this radio interview by Dana Shapiro talking about the many ways the Hawaii Ulu Cooperative are getting crops to market.

The along with the and has launched an initiative to promote replacing 30 percent of flour use with local starches by 2030.

Take the Ulu Flour Survey at this link: https://www.voyagingfoods.com/blogs/news/ulu-flour-initiative

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Voyaging Foods as a social enterprise strives to see food sovereignty as a basic essential tool for every household. This is why our company and its allies have helped us build models of sustainability like this solar dryer that can be replicated for the many not just the few. What if we all worked for the good of humanity rather than solely focused on profits and patents?
We are collaborating with like-minded social entrepreneurs, public and private partners to see food security at the regional level operated by members of our community.
Thank you to all who have showed up and we welcome more goodness to come!

Listening & learning the wise ways 🌱🌱 @ Na Mea Kupono Lo’i Kalo (Taro Farm)

Experimenting with capturing wild yeast from dehydrated 'ulu (breadfruit). We are adding daily updates to our stories of the process! Making wild yeast cultures for home- made bread is what we can all do when we support each other! We used breadfruit flour to feed this starter breadfruit! Let's see more products using canoe-plant flour like breadfruit in daily meals!
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We are beta testing our newest project: an online learning platform where we share methods we use to make our powders and flours and simple steps to capture local wild yeast for a starter. Link in our bio!

🌈 Positive signs while fixing up to dry more plants in our solar dryer. • It has been great visiting other farms to learn from their drying methods. • Bringing some of what I've learned home to these islands. • In Hawaii, we are fortunate to have abundance of wind and sun w/ 360 days of being outdoors.

Hawaii has the most expensive electricity costs in the U.S. • As a value added maker, It just didn't seem right to keep using appliances that keep us dependent.• Got big dreams for this dryer to feed our families, our communities & lessen the wasted food.

Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono. ❤🌱 The sovereignty of the Hawaiian nation • Self-determination + food Sovereignty

FOOD-A-GO-GO FARMS FEATURED BUSINESS: Voyaging Foods Inspired by traditional Hawaiian agriculture, Voyaging Foods uses canoe plants such as kalo (taro), ‘uala (sweet potato), and ‘ulu (breadfruit) to produce gluten-free baked goods and alternative flours.

🍈 After over a year in planning we are excited to announce the launch of the 30% X '30 ʻUlu Flour Initiative in partnership with , & // 🍈🍈 This initiative promotes replacing 30% of imported flours to Hawaiʻi with that made from local starches by 2030. -->> Please help us understand the current interest in breadfruit flour by filling our short 30X30 survey (link in bio).
'Ulu flour is a great way to preserve the overabundance of fruit in peak season for months when there is none available!
*GIVEAWAY*
We are giving away 1-lb. of 'ulu flour to one lucky winner! .
This is all you have to do to enter:
Go to the link in our bio, use the active link "Click Here" and fill out our 30% X '30 'Ulu Flour Initiative Survey. It's only 10 multiple choice questions!
Optional: Tag a friend who loves baking! 👩🏾‍🍳🧁

🌄 Sunrise from the lens of Indigenious innovation at Kūkaʻōʻō Heiau.

⛅️Check out a live recording and a time lapse of this mornings sunrise. It was magical to greet Kāne, the sun, as he travels through its most Northern path across our skies creating the longest day of the year. Mahalo for keeping us connected 🤙🏽

will have our video recording up soon!

Happening TOMORROW June 5, 2020, Join a virtual Women Business Leaders Panel at the UOG Center for Island Sustainability 🇬🇺 Virtual Conference Series on Island Sustainability

This event will feature:

Aggregators Panel
-Aimee Christensein, Founder of Sun Valley Institute
-Meagan Fallone, CEO of Barefoot College
-Meli James, Co-Founder of Mana Up Hawaii
-Maria Leon Guerrero, Executive VP of Bank of Guam

Entrepreneurs Panel
-Brynn Foster, Co-Founder of Voyaging foods Hawaii
-Adimaimalaga Tafunai, Founder of Women in Business Development Inc. Samoa
-Brianne West, Founder of Ethique New Zealand

Register to attend: https://www.uog.edu/cis2020/

This series is brought to you by the University of Guam - UOG in partnership with Hawaii Green Growth and Global Island Partnership

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