In the last year, the Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network has expanded to serve school gardens in communities around the island. There are currently 45 projects, at varying stages of development, participating in the Garden Network. The Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network has invited the 45 schools and garden teachers to attend Saturday’s Ka Umeke [...]
The Hawaiʻi Island School Garden Network is currently working with 40 schools on Hawaiʻi Island. Each of these programs needs community volunteers to help with garden lessons and to assist with work in the gardens. Help this program to sprout and grow! If you can volunteer time (even one hour a week), materials or resources for [...]
E Malama ʻAina is coming up around the corner, Friday and Saturday, November 7 & 8, 2008! A project of the Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce, it is a two-day family festival taking place on Nov. 7 & 8 at Hilo’s Moʻoheau Park. Full of family fun and interactive activities, the event will offer consumers and businesses [...]
We would like to share the triumphs of working with the soil and those little tricks that come with hands-on experience. Everything from the simple how-to’s of making a paper planting cup to discussions of Hawaiian moon phases and our crops…the world of growing food encompasses a broad range or topics only limited by our [...]
School garden programs are beginning to take root and are quietly growing in our public, private, charter and after-school programs across Hawaii Island. Initiated by passionate principals, teachers, parents or interested community members, these programs seek to reconnect our youth on many levels. By experiencing the growing and sharing of food, they can also [...]