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A statewide Seed Working Group was formed and met in Kona following the Symposium.
Members of the group included:
Alton Arakaki – CTAHR Extension Moloka‘i
Melanie Bondera – Farmer, Kona
Betsy Cole – The Kohala Center
Micaela Cooley – Organic Seed Alliance
Joshua Cravens – Farmer, New Mexico
Matthew Dillon - Organic Seed Alliance
Gerry Herbert - Farmer, Kona
Lyn Howe – Farmer, Puna
Guy Kaulukukui – Food Self-Reliance Project Director, The Kohala Center
Jerry Konanui – Farmer, Puna
Paul Massey – Regenerations Botanical Garden, Kaua‘i
Frank Morton – Seed Farmer, Organic Seed Alliance
Vincent Mina – Farmer, Maui
Russell Nagata – CTAHR Administrator, Hawai‘i Island
John Navazio – OSA, Washington State University
Ted Radovich - CTAHR UH Mānoa
Nancy Redfeather – Symposium Coordinator/Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network
Ellen Sugawara - Farmer, Moloka‘i
Glenn Teves – CTAHR Extension, Moloka‘i
Ray Uchida – Agricultural Diagnostic Service Center/Seed Lab, UH Mānoa
Patti Valentine - Regenerations Botanical Garden, Kaua‘i
Hector Valenzuela – CTAHR Vegetable Specialist, UH Mānoa
Jill Wagner – Hawai‘i Native Seed Bank
Alvin Yoshinaga – Seed Conservation Laboratory-Restoration Ecologist UH Mānoa
If you would like to get involved in an Island Seed Working Group please contact:
Kaua‘i - Paul Massey paul.massey@ribg.org
O‘ahu - Hector Valenzuela hector@hawaii.edu
Moloka‘i - Glenn Teves TevesG@ctahr.hawaii.edu
Maui - Gerry Ross lavaboy@hawaiiantel.net
Hawai‘i Island:
Eastside - Lyn Howe lynhowe1946@yahoo.com
Westside - Nancy Redfeather nredfeather@kohalacenter.org
The Kohala Center is an independent, not-for-profit academic institute for research and education in the environmental sciences. By working at the intersection of culture, community, and science, and by respectfully engaging Hawai‘i Island’s unique natural assets as scientific and intellectual assets, The Kohala Center builds teaching and research programs that enhance island environments and serve island communities. The Kohala Center understands that its local work has global impact because the Island of Hawai‘i is considered by the international scientific community as a model of the world. Thus, the Island of Hawai‘i becomes a model for the world.
Please contact us at info@kohalacenter.org or at P.O. Box 437462, Kamuela, Hawai‘i 96743. Visit our Web site www.kohalacenter.org for more information.