The end of an era is arriving on Maui. HC&S has announced its impending closure. By the end of 2016, this 144 year tradition of sugar farming will be no more. Last summer, before the announcement was made, a close friend that works at HC&S invited our family to see a spectacular sight: a cane fire, up close and personal, right as they set flame to … Continue reading Maui A to Z: HC&S
Sugar is officially dead in Hawaii. That once beautiful swaying crop across the plains of central Maui will not see another Christmas, and at least half of the men and women who lovingly tended those fields will be jobless by 2017. With a workforce of 675 people, around 337 individuals will be added to the masses of people looking for work on Maui. While activists online … Continue reading The Day Sugar Died, A Sad Day For The Islands
