Kasier Volunteers at Mala’ai Garden Test caption Hilo HS Ag Teacher Steve Nemeth briefs our group
Aloha Kohala Elementary School ohana, I had a great GT class today with our 14 students. We Skyped (video conferenced) with Joshua Silva, a graduate student at UH Manoa who is working on our soil test. He had the lab set up for easy viewing for the students. First he talked about lab safety, and [...]
The pigs and chickens greet me when I arrive on the weekend to feed them
Aloha Kohala Elementary School ohana, Mahalo for giving of your time and energy on our workday Saturday, January 15. We had 12 children and 16 adults show up to get our garden back in shape. 5 of these adults wielded weed whackers! Needless to say we got a lot done. We weeded, organized tools, organized [...]
Aloha Kohala Elementary School ohana, Welcome back to the garden. I took last week to write curriculum, solidify the schedule (copy on back), and organize the next two work days. It was useful to have the feedback from you so that I can incorporate the benchmarks and lessons and ideas you presented. I will put [...]
“I maikaʻi ke keiki i ka ʻohā.”- “behavior of the child represents their parents.” ʻo ke kalo ka meakanu mua loa a nā keiki i kanu aku ai ma muli o kona waiwai i ka poʻe hawaiʻi. (The kalo is the first crop planted by the keiki because of its significance to the Hawaiian people.) [...]