Ponova is made from the pongamia tree, which is unusually resilient. On a former sugarcane plantation in Oahu that was abandoned for decades, rows of trees now grow in the degraded soil. The trees—called pongamia—aren’t new to Hawaii. But a company called TerViva is the first to farm them, after discovering a way to process the trees’ beans to make them into food.Read Full Story

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