One Kailua couple has gone whole hog on their interpretation of “eat local.” 

Honolulu Magazine reports:

After most of us watched Food, Inc., the exposé on America’s industrialized food system, maybe we put a few more local and organic vegetables in our shopping carts. Maybe we stopped buying factory-farmed meat, until sticker shock sent us back to our old buying habits.

Lehua and David Fitch, however, went whole hog. A software consultant and furniture maker, respectively, they picked up their lives in Kailua, Oahu, and moved to Haiku, Maui, to raise pigs.

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