Fall Workshop 2012: September 22-23, 2012

"Garden Based Nutritional Education for School Garden and Class Teachers"
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Location: The Mala‘ai Culinary Garden at the Waimea Middle School
Instructors: Vivienne Aronozitz M.P.H., R.D., C.D.E and HCC Instructor Sandy Barr

Vivienne holds a Masters of Public Health and is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Diabetes Educator. She is the nutritionist for all Kaiser Permanente Clinics on Hawai’i Island as well as a nutrition consultant to individuals and other agencies. Sandy is an Instructor in the HCC Culinary Arts Program at the Hilo Campus and will be sharing "kitchen protocols" and cooking with us.

This day long workshop will focus on the "foundations of nutrition" and will include a sharing of nutritional curriculum and resources to use with students, parents and community to bring the sources of healthy eating found in the garden into your school community. We will be picking and making simple food for lunch that you can easily make in your school gardens. There will also be time for planning for your programs.

Please bring one whole vegetable to share. Remember to dress warmly with layers, bring a rain jacket and your notebook and paper. This class will be very similar to the HISGN Nutrition Workshops 1&2 that will be offered this year to all Hawai‘i Island School Garden Teachers. A full agenda will be available by September 1.

Visit the Mala‘ai Culinary Garden Web site.

"Getting to Know your Botanical Neighbors: Native Plants in School Gardens - Resources/Mo'oleleo/Uses/Propagation"
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: The Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook
Instructors: Kamuela Naihe, staff of the AGG, and surprise guests!

You will each receive Noa Lincoln's new Native Plant Resource: "Native Hawaiian and Polynesian Introduced Plants". The Workshop will include an identification tour of the 12 acre Kona Field System Zones, mo‘oleleo, traditional and modern usage, seed collection, thatching, and propagation and tips for growing native plants in your school gardens. We will harvest native plants and medicines and create a "Garden in a Bag" (ki, ko, olena, pia, nanea, and wauke), which you can take back to your gardens and propagate and share with your communities.

We will be eating traditional Hawaiian foods for lunch and combining them with fresh vegetables from our gardens.

Visit the Amy Greenwell Garden Web site which includes research and publications on taro, breadfruit, makaloa, wauke, and the Gardens of Lono. Makahiki is coming so it is a good time to be studying and using traditional Hawaiian Crops and Native plants.