Life is full of seasons and each phase of life has its own character. Spring resembles conception, birth and young adolescence. Young adulthood is the summer of our life, middle-age is the fall and old age is the winter. If this is true, then the PBS Hawai‘i team is enjoying young adulthood. We are reaching the peak of our physical strength and endurance and making our mark on the world.

Several seats in the State Senate are up for grabs this election year as long-time incumbents retire. Three democrats, newcomers Shaina Forsyth and Tamara Goebbert and State Rep. Angus McKelvey are looking to make the general election ballot in the District 6 race, which represents portions of South and West Maui. On Oʻahu, the Democratic primary for the District 11 (Mānoa – Makiki Heights) seat pits newcomer Ian Ross against veteran politician Carol Fukunaga.

On this episode of Home is Here we “go long” to Mānoa to catch up with Timmy Chang, the new University of Hawai’i Football head coach. We head to Haīku St. in Kāneʻohe where we visit the largest Native Hawaiian nursery in the world, Hui Kū Maoli Ola. On our last stop we travel to Makawao to meet Mitzi Toro, better known as “The Maui Cookie Lady.”

We revisit our conversation with Jodi Endo Chai, co-author of the 2000 okazuya guide "Oh, 'Cause You Hungry!" and Executive Officer of the State of Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, about the classic delicatessens and the struggles these family businesses face in trying to survive. Listen below.

Rick Barboza shows you a few of the Native Hawaiian plants at his nursery, Hui Kū Maoli Ola.

A new season of HIKI NŌ, the first new show in the program’s second decade a recap of the first ten years of HIKI NŌ and personal stories shared by students across the state. HIKI NŌ #1301

On 7/26/22, we had an advanced virtual screening of The Green Planet: Human Worlds. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the episode featured the Maui Invasive Species Committee's work on miconia and the University of Hawaiʻi's native plant extinction prevention efforts.

Jodi Endo Chai visits Sekiyaʻs Okazuya

The re-drawing of legislative districts due to shifts in population has created challenging election contests across the state this year. On Hawaiʻi Island, incumbents Laura Acasio and Lorraine Inouye face Wil Okabe in the Democratic Primary for District 1, that includes Hilo and part of the Hamakua Coast. Acasio and Okabe will face off in a live format. On Oʻahu there is no incumbent in Senate District 19 which covers parts of Pearl City, Waipahu and ʻEwa. State Representative Henry Aquino faces newcomer Roger Clemente in the Democratic Primary.

UH Football Head Coach Timmy Chang answers some rapid-fire questions for PBS Hawaiʻi.