Past Events and Workshops

2013

Train the Trainers 2013
On September 13-15, 2013, HPSI offered an advanced three-day “Train the Trainers” Workshop in Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i Island. It is designed to help dedicated individuals from each island broaden their seed production skills and continue to advance and promote seed work in their respective locales.

This training focused on:

We are inviting people who have experience in seed saving and are willing to make a commitment to working in their locale to help to create and further island seed networks.

Spring Seed Exchange for South Kona
Date: Saturday, June 22nd noon to 3:30pm
Location: Tropical Edibles Nursery, 83-5696 Mamalahoa Highway, Captain Cook (south of mile marker 108)
Details: Bring a dish for a noon potluck lunch and seed talk story. Exchange starts at 1:30pm. Come with information about your seeds & envelopes to collect seeds
For more information call or write: 808/328-0420 or tropicaledibles@gmail.com
Click here to view the flyer

Communty Seed and Plant Exchange
Date: Saturday, May 5, 2013 — 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Kualoa Ranch, Hale Moli‘i Fishpond, just south of Ka‘a‘awa, O‘ahu
Details: You are invited to attend a Seed and Plant Exchange at beautiful Kualoa Ranch on O‘ahu. This may be the first island-wide Seed Exchange event held on O‘ahu. Similar events have been held regularly over the past several years on some of the neighbor islands, attended by hundreds of beginning and avid gardeners and farmers. Click here to view the schedule and list of speakers, which includes U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard.

Train the Trainers Workshop
Dates: September 13-15, 2013
Locations: Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i Island
Details: HPSI will offer an advanced three-day “Train the Trainers” Workshop in Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i Island. It is designed to help dedicated individuals from each island broaden their seed production skills and continue to advance and promote seed work in their respective locales. Learn more.

Hands-On Seed-Saving with Lyn Howe and Elizabeth Mallion
Date: Saturday, April 6, 20123 — 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Location: Pa‘auilo Makai
Details: Come learn the basics of seed-saving: how to select for desirable qualities in plants and grow them for seed, collect, process, and store your seeds. Tips and demonstrations for different kinds of seeds, including papaya, lilikoi, bean, and more. After the workshop, take home a variety of new and locally-grown seeds for useful and nutritious plants! Registration is $25.00; Students with a valid student ID and seniors (60+) may register for $15.00. To preregister and for directions, email practicalaghamakua@gmail.com or visit practicalagricultureforhamakua.com.

Home Gardening – Seed Saving (North Kohala)
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013
Location: Wishing Well, 55-230 Hoea Rd., Hāwī, North Kohala
Whether your goal is to preserve and heirloom variety or to simply become more self-sufficient, seed saving is an important part of sustainable gardening. At this free workshop, Lyn Howe and Travis Dodson will share the history and science behind seed production and teach us how to successfully save and store seeds from our gardens. Contact Karla at (808) 224-1404, or visit foodhubkohala.org.

Organicology 2013 Conference
Date: February 7-9, 2013
Location: Portland, Oregon
OSA is a proud co-host of Organicology 2013. Organicology is an interactive conference designed to meet the diverse needs of our rapidly expanding trade. The conference offers educational and networking events that enhance the understanding and skills of our diverse organic community, from seed producers and farmers, to distributors, retailers, researchers, chefs, policy activists, and eaters. The 2013 conference will continue to focus on sustainability, farming and seed issues, and a wide range of timely topics that impact the organic trade. For more information, please visit the official Organicology Conference Web site.

Southern SAWG Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference
Date: January 23-26, 2013
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Join OSA for Southern SAWG's annual conference which will include a seed track co-organized by OSA staff. For more information, please visit the Southern SAWG Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference Web site.

Vandana Shiva Visits Hawai‘i
Dates: January 15-17, 2013
Locations: January 15: UH-Mānoa Campus Center Ballroom, O‘ahu (Register)
January 16: Salvation Army Ray Kroc Center, Kapolei, O‘ahu (Register)
January 17: Kaua‘i Memorial Convention Hall, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i 
Local food and sustainable agriculture enthusiasts are preparing for a highly anticipated visit from the internationally acclaimed activist and sustainable farming advocate Dr. Vandana Shiva. From January 15-17, Dr. Shiva will speak to legislators, students, Agricultural specialists and community members on O‘ahu and Kaua‘i about food justice and sustainable agriculture—issues that are gathering momentum as Hawai‘i attempts to address the question of its growing food insecurity.
Click here for more information and complete schedule of events and appearances.


2012

Using the eOrganic Organic Seed Production Tutorials Webinar
Date: November 16, 2012 10:00 a.m. PST
Join us for an eOrganic webinar introducing a new eXtension online course created by Organic Seed Alliance. The O‘brassicas, carrots, lettuce, onions, and wet-seeded crops. The tutorials also cover climatic considerations, and seed disease and quality. The tutorials combine text, images, audio, and video to teach professional techniques for organic seed production. To register for the webinar, visit the Web site.

Join eOrganic for a webinar on the Organic Seed Production tutorials created by the Organic Seed Alliance.
Date: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (12:00 p.m. Central, 11:00 a.m. Mountain, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) The webinar is free and open to the public, and advance registration is required. Visit the Web site.

Hua Ka Hua: Restore our Seed Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative
Seed Basics for Farmers and Home Gardeners
Date: November 3-4, 2012
Location: Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Hawai‘i
Click here to go to the Seed Basics Web site for more information.

10th Annual Westside Seed Exchange Kona
Date: Friday November 2, from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: Amy Greenwell Garden in Captain Cook
We invite you to bring and exchange seeds and cuttings of food crops you grow in your gardens. This year will be very special as we are reaching out to our island school gardens to participate. Please join us for this wonderful event, connect with your community and with the youth who have been saving seed from their school gardens.
Contact Lyn Howe 808-756-5310 for more information.

10th Biannual Kaua‘i Community Seed & Plant Exchange
Date: Sunday October 14, 2012 Noon-5:00 p.m.
Location: Lihu‘e Neighborhood Center, 3353 Eono Street (near Wilcox Hospital)
Click here for more information.

East Side Seed Exchange & Harvest Festival!
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Location: La‘akea Permaculture Community Meadow Space, Puna
Free Event.
Bring your favorite dishes using only locally grown food for the 2nd Annual 100% local food cook off and potluck! Optional competition for best savory and sweet dish. Bring Seeds only (please no plants, cuttings, or keikies etc).
o Exchange and give away localized seeds (bringing seeds not required)
o Hear a panel on "Preparing Local Favorite Foods"
o Enter the Local Cook Off!
o Try new taste delights at the Local Food Potluck!
o Meet your neighbors, other gardeners & innovative thinkers.

Schedule:
8:30 a.m Set up open (bring your own tables and chairs, and scrap paper for small packets for seeds)
9:00 a.m. Opening Circle
9:15 a.m. Seed Swap
10:00 a.m. Panel Presentation
11:45 a.m. 100% Local Food Contest
12:30 p.m. Local Food Potluck (bring your own plates, utensils, etc)
1:15 p.m. Marimba Dance with Mwenje
To enter the local foods cooking competition or to present your favorite local food please contact Tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com

Hua Ka Hua: Restore our Seed Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative
Seed Basics for Farmers and Home Gardeners
Date: August 24-25, 2012
Location: Moloka‘i
Click here to go to the Seed Basics Web site for more information.

Webinar Introducing the Organic Seed Finder
Date: August 21, 2012, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT.
The Organic Seed Finder is a new web-based organic seed database to support your business and the broader organic industry. A national organic seed database is a necessary tool for encouraging the use of, and investments in, organic seed. The launch date for Organic Seed Finder is October 1, 2012.
Download the invitation.

Hua Ka Hua: Restore our Seed Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative
Seed Basics for Farmers and Home Gardeners
Date: May 19-20, 2012
Location: Maui
Click here to go to the Seed Basics Web site for more information.

9th Biannual Kaua‘i Community Seed and Plant Exchange
Date: April 1, 2012
Location: Nā Keiki o Ka ‘Āina in Kapa‘a, next to Papaya’s Natural Foods in the Kaua‘i Village Shopping Center
Read the latest information with schedule.
If you have them to share, please bring cuttings, potted plants, and seeds that are non-invasive, non-GMO, pre-cleaned and free of insects and disease. Presentations about the Kauai Community Seed Bank, la‘au lapa‘au (Hawaiian herbal medicine) and the Coco Palms mālama ‘āina project will be from 2:00-3:00 p.m. followed by the pule and exchange at 3:00 p.m. There will be live music by Malama Pono Alstars from 3:00-5:00 p.m. with Cook Islands/Tahitian drumming at 5pm, followed by fire dancing and poi ball performances at the Center’s outdoor stage. The seed lab will be open and offering hands-on activities. This is a great community event where you'll meet all kinds of people who know and love every kind of plant. For more information call 808-652-4118, visit www.ribg.org or e-mail info@ribg.org.

Hua Ka Hua: Restore our Seed Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative
Seed Basics for Farmers and Home Gardeners
Date: March 24-25, 2012
Location: O‘ahu
Click here to go to the Seed Basics Web site for more information.

Sixth Organic Seed Growers Conference
Date: January 19 – 21, 2012
Location: Port Townsend, Washington
The Organic Seed Growers Conference is recognized as the only event of its kind in North America, bringing together hundreds of farmers, seed production and distribution companies, researchers, plant breeders, pathologists, and university extension in two days of informative presentations, panel discussions, and networking events.
For more information and to register, click here.


2011

The Sustainable Gardening & Farming Training Course
Date: Saturdays from October 8 to December 17, 2011 from 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Regenerations Botanical Garden
As an instructor of the course, Regenerations director Paul Massey provides a focus on plant diversity and seed saving. This semester the course will also feature a hands-on workshop planting kalo (taro), as we rotate our collection of 38 cultivars from Regenerations Seed Garden to the campus. The Seed Garden is also a satellite training site during the course, where students will put into practice the information presented in class. Many students from past semesters have contributed to the Seed Garden over the last year and we—and the plants—are very grateful for their positive energy and hard work.
To register, call 245-8318. For more information click here, or call Paul at 652-7898.

East Side Seed Exchange & Harvest Festival!
Date: November 26 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: La‘akea Permaculture Community Meadow Space
Click here to see the flyer.
Free Event
Bring your favorite dishes using only locally grown food for the 100% LOCAL FOOD COOK OFF AND POTLUCK!! Optional competition for best main dish, side dish, and desert—contact tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com for more information.
Bring seeds only (please no plants, cuttings, or keiki, etc).
• Exchange and give away localized seeds (bringing seeds not required)
• Hear a panel on "Growing Local Favorite Foods"
• Enjoy Hula performances or Dance to Marimba Music!
• Enter the Local Cook Off!
• Try new taste delights at the Local Food Potluck!
• Meet your neighbors, other gardeners, and innovative thinkers East Side Seed Exchange at La‘akea Community
Date: October 16, 2010
TIme: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Exchange seeds only
8:30 Set up (bring your own table and chairs)
9:30 Opening Circle
9:45 Seed swap
11:00 Panel and Presentations
10:15 Optional tour of La‘akea
12:15 Closing circle
La‘akea Community is located 5 miles outside of Pahoa. Take Route 130 past the light in Pahoa. Ala Ili Road is the first small road on the right after mile marker 14. Go up Ala Ili Road one mile to La‘akea sign on right.

Seed Exchange
Date: November 19, 2011 10:00 a.m.—1:00 p.m.
Location: Kea‘au Youth Business Center (in Kea‘au Shopping Center)
Click here to see the flyer.
Pre-cleaned, pest-free, GMO free and non-invasive material welcome
For more information go to www.kybc808.com or call KYBC at 966-6354.

Hua Ka Hua: Restore our Seed Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative
Seed Basics for Farmers and Home Gardeners
Date: November 6-7, 2011
Location: Kaua‘i
Click here for more information.

Read more about the Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative workshops and events in The Kohala Center's September/October 2011 Leaflet.

Calling all Seed Savers!
2011 West Hawai‘i Seed Exchange
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
Click here to see the flyer.
Please bring envelopes for gathering seed. Farmers and Gardeners please bring viable saved seed/roots/corm/cuttings of food crops that are labeled with variety name if known. For more information, please contact Diana Duff hokudi@aol.com.

"Healing our Relationship with Plants" by Paul Massey
Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
Location: Kaua‘i Healing Garden Festival
The festival will be held at Kilohana Plantation in Puhi from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Regenerations will also have sought-after medicinal plants for sale including mamaki and
‘awa (kava kava). Come by our tent to sample mamaki tea; if you haven't tried it, you'll be surprised by the delicious and refreshing taste of this native nettles tree. We’re also looking for people to help with set-up, staffing, and breakdown of the Regenerations booth. Please e-mail info@ribg.org if you are interested in joining our team.

Also as part of the Healing Garden Festival, Na Keiki o Ka ‘Aina in Kapa‘a will host Poisons in Paradise on Friday, October 14 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD, MHD of GMO Free Kaua‘i. For complete information on the Healing Garden Festival, visit hawaiihealthguide.com.

Justice Begins with Seeds
Date: September 16-17, 2011, San Francisco
(Pre-conference events Sept. 12-15)
Location: The Women’s Building and other locations in the Mission District, San Francisco
The purpose of the upcoming conference is to address the many layered implications of genetically engineered food, build strategic coalitions and deeper collaborations amongst diverse stakeholders for more widespread action in varying levels throughout the state of California to shift away from the industrial food regime.
For more information click here.

The National Heirloom Exposition
Date: September 13-15, 2011
Join seed companies, farmers, gardeners, chefs and food organizations for the National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa, California, at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. This will likely be the largest event for heritage agriculture ever held. Learn from America’s top growers and food celebrities! Enjoy workshops, demonstrations, and great music.
Click here for more information.

The 8th Biannual Kaua‘i Community Seed and Plant Exchange
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011 Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Download the flyer.
To watch a video of the Regenerations Botanical Garden Seed Exchange 2011, click here.

7th Biannual Seed and Plant Exchange
Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011
Time: Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Na Keiki O ka Aina, Kapaa, Kauai
This event is designed to facilitate local growers in the ongoing stewardship of valuable plant diversity by producing, saving, and sharing seeds and other plant material with island neighbors. Admission is free and all seeds and plants at the Exchange are given freely or traded.Click here for more information.

Seed Saving Workshop
Date: May 10, 2011, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Location: Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center Pool Room, Maui
Bring overly mature vegetable plants from which to extract seeds. The program, “An Introduction to Seed Saving with Evan Ryan”, sponsored by the Upcountry Sustainability group, should provide you with valuable details on seed saving. Ryan is a Maui resident who has spent the past 12 years as a permaculture designer, farmer, project manager, and educator. Click here for more information.

Organic Seed Workshops will be featured this year at the "Organicology" Conference put on by Oregon Tilth
Date: February 10–12, 2011
Location: Portland, Oregon
Click here to download the flyer.


2010

Oahu Urban Garden Center Seed Swap and Seed Saving for the Home Gardener Workshop
Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–Noon
Location: Oahu Urban Garden Center
Learn how to collect, store and exchange seeds! We’ll have seeds to exchange and seeds to sell! Bring seed collection if you would like to exchange.
SEED SAVING WORKSHOP: 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. & repeat class available at 11:00 a.m.-Noon. Learn more about how to save vegetable, fruit and flower seeds to perpetuate your home garden. Alvin Yoshinaga, with Lyon Arboretum Seed Conservation Lab, will be sharing tricks and full-proof seed saving tips to save your seeds year after year.
Cost: $5 at the door. Walk-ins welcome, pre-registration not required.
Click here for more information.

Community Seed and Plant Exchange
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Time: Noon–6:00 p.m.
Location: Hanapepe United Church of Christ, Kaua‘i
Click here to download the flyer.