Mala‘ai Garden at Waimea Middle School. Photography by Baron Sekiya | Hawaii 24/7

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Free Family-Community Workshops at Mala’ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School!

HAWAIIAN HERBAL MEDICINE BASICS WITH CULTURAL PRACTITIONER KAI KAHOLOKAI:
2-4 p.m., Sat., March 12, 2011.

At Mala’ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School in conjunction with their weekly Crop Share (12:30-3 p.m.). Free and everyone invited though please RSVP by calling Nicole Milne (987-9210) or email: nmilne@hawaii.edu. For the Crop Share, school-community families and friends are invited to bring surplus produce from their home garden or farm to exchange with other community members. You don’t have to bring produce to participate. At the end of each Crop Share, excess food is shared with school families or donated to Waimea food pantries. Questions? Call Nicole Milne.

LET WORMS DO THE WORK IN YOUR GARDEN: A FREE VERMICOMPOSTING WORKSHOP:
10 a.m. – noon, Sat., April 2, 2011

At Mala‘ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School. Presenter Dr. Norman Q. Arancon, PhD, is one of the country’s leading “worm guys” – aka vermiculturists. He was wooed to UH-Hilo to boost its sustainable agriculture research and support for local farming and gardening after having studied under Dr. Clive Edwards, now retired, but who at the time was the world’s authority on vermiculture as a technology to manage organic waste and produce soil amendments that allow farmers and gardeners to move away from chemical fertilizers. Presented by Mala’ai school garden’s weekly Crop Share, which runs from 12:30-3 p.m. every Saturday. For the Crop Share, school-community families and friends are invited to bring surplus produce from their home garden or farm to exchange with other community members. You don’t have to bring produce to participate. At the end of each Crop Share, excess food is is shared with school families or donated to Waimea food pantries. Questions: Contact Nicole Milne – Emial : nmilne@hawaii.edu or (808) 987-9210.

MASTER NAVIGATOR CHADD PAISHON TO PRESENT WORKSHOP:
10:30 a.m. – Noon., Sat., April 30, 2011

At Mala’ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School in conjunction with their weekly Crop Share (12:30-3 p.m.). Theme: “He Wa’a he Moku, he Moku he Wa’a” – The Canoe Is and Island, the Island is a Canoe. Free and everyone invited though please RSVP by calling Nicole Milne (987-9210) or email: nmilne@hawaii.edu. For the Crop Share, school-community families and friends are invited to bring surplus produce from their home garden or farm to exchange with other community members. You don’t have to bring produce to participate. At the end of each Crop Share, excess food is is shared with school families or donated to Waimea food pantries.