Katie Wortman

Katie Wortman

Kohala Food Hub
Manager

As the Kohala Food Hub Manager, Katie is dedicated to supporting the local farming community and increasing access to fresh, nutritious food throughout North Kohala and Hawaiʻi Island. Katie moved from Kaʻū to Kohala with her husband Cody in July 2022 after spending several years teaching agriculture and natural resources and leading the Pāhala Resilience Food Hub. Since their move up north, Katie has been helping to run Kohala Food Hub's weekly farm-fresh produce subscription program, managing their online farmers market, and organizing weekly free food distributions for the community.

Having grown up with fond memories of visiting her family's farm in Japan, Katie has a deep passion for natural farming and wrote her college senior thesis on “Shizen Nōhō: Restoring the Relationship Between Food, Nature, and People in Japan” based on the research she conducted in Central Japan, which included the perspectives and practices of her own family who have been farming for generations in Ōkute-juku, Mizunami-shi, Japan. Katie is happy to be continuing her family's legacy through her work at Kohala Food Hub.

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Katie Wortman

Kohala Food Hub
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Katie Wortman

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As the Kohala Food Hub Manager, Katie is dedicated to supporting the local farming community and increasing access to fresh, nutritious food throughout North Kohala and Hawaiʻi Island. Katie moved from Kaʻū to Kohala with her husband Cody in July 2022 after spending several years teaching agriculture and natural resources and leading the Pāhala Resilience Food Hub. Since their move up north, Katie has been helping to run Kohala Food Hub's weekly farm-fresh produce subscription program, managing their online farmers market, and organizing weekly free food distributions for the community.

Having grown up with fond memories of visiting her family's farm in Japan, Katie has a deep passion for natural farming and wrote her college senior thesis on “Shizen Nōhō: Restoring the Relationship Between Food, Nature, and People in Japan” based on the research she conducted in Central Japan, which included the perspectives and practices of her own family who have been farming for generations in Ōkute-juku, Mizunami-shi, Japan. Katie is happy to be continuing her family's legacy through her work at Kohala Food Hub.

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