Sarah Burchard is a Honolulu-based writer and editor.

She covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and culture, exploring a range of topics from the feeding efforts after the 2023 Maui wildfires, to “trash fish” as a sustainable food source, to the jazz kissas in Japan paving the way for modern listening bars, to what it’s like to volunteer at a traditional Hawaiian fishpond. She’s extensively covered Oʻahu restaurants: new, old and closing. 

Sarah is passionate about ethical travel, sustainable food systems and local ingredients. Her reporting has taken her to Hawaiʻi’s only shochu distillery, 3,500 feet above West Maui to taste bean-to-cup coffee, the mud-filled taro patches of Oʻahu, a two time Cocoa of Excellence Award-winning cacao farm on Kauaʻi, the top of the Marunouchi Building in Tokyo for saimin and many more newsworthy destinations. 

Read Sarah’s print and online work here: Hawaii.com, FLUX Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi Magazine, HONOLULU magazine, Forbes.com, hana hou!, Hawaiʻi Farm & Food, Violet, Living, R Magazine, and more. She also blogs occasionally on Substack.

Follow Sarah on Instagram or email her at sarah@healthylocavore.com.

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