Moloka‘i workshop 2012 Agenda
August 24-25th, 2012

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Day 1: Lanikeha Center, Ho‘olehua

8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration

8:30-9:00 a.m. Opening Introductions by Nancy Redfeather

9:00-9:30 a.m. The Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative by Nancy Redfeather, Coordinator HPSI
• Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
• Public Seed Commons: A Brief History of the Seed Industry.

9:30-10:00 a.m. History of Seed Production and Crop Breeding in Hawai‘i by Hector Valenzuela
• Brief Summary of Statewide Seed Assesment from the 2010 Seed Symposium.

10:00-10:45 a.m. Seed Basics: Botany and Biology by Russell Nagata
• Monocot and Dicot Plant Differences
• Open-Pollinated/Hybrid/Heirloom
• Inbreeding/outbreeding: Know Your Crops Mating preferences.
• Selfing/Cross Pollination Pollen Transfer (wind, insect, human)
• Reproductive Cycles: Annuals, Biennials, Perennials
• Different Strategies - population numbers, isolation distances, roughing and selection to maintain seed purity

10:45-11:30 a.m. Growing Tomato for Seed in the Garden by Glenn Teves
• Overview of what conventional tomato breeders might consider:
o Selecting for cultivars with characteristics that address the special needs of Island propagation.

11:30 a.m.-Noon Wet Process Seed Saving - Demonstration of Saving Tomato Seed by Ellen Sugawara

Noon-1:00 p.m. Lunch - (after lunch please organize to carpool to NRCS )

1:00-1:30 p.m. Carpool to NRCS

1:30- 2:30p.m. Tour Of NRCS Plant Materials Center With Focus On Windbreaks And Materials For Windbreaks - with Kawika & Tour of USDA-CES project on pollinators using native and indigenous plants – with Jennifer Hawkins

2:30-3:00 p.m. Return to Lanikeha Center

3:00-4:00 p.m. Seed Saving and Storage: Basic Techniques and Ideas by Ellen Sugawara


Day 2: Lanikeha Center, Ho‘olehua

9:00-10:00 a.m. Growing Requirements for Producing Lettuce for Seed by Russell Nagata
• Cleaning Techniques for Dry Seeded Crops.
• Pollination, Isolation, Optimum Number of Plants
• Seed Purity, Improving Lettuce Varieties, Roguing and Selection
• Seed Storage, Viability Testing

10:00-11:00 a.m. Harvest And Clean Lettuce Seed - Demonstration And Class Participation by Ellen Sugawara

11:00-11:15 a.m Break

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Growing Kalo by Glenn Teves

12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15-2:15 p.m. Talk Story with Ellen Sugawara

2:15-2:45 p.m. Variety Trials (hands-on exercise using the variety trial log sheet in your folders) by Hector Valenzuela
• What is a variety trial and what information are we looking to gather?
• How to use the log handed out - (go through this exercise using 1 or 2 plants, maybe the lettuce and tomato we are handing out)
• What we will be doing and recording this year - how the information gained will be recorded
• Give Lettuce and tomato seed to participants to grow out and record information

2:45-3:30 p.m. Screening Vegetable Varieties For Molokai and Identifying Varieties Adapted To Molokai by Alton Arakaki

Seed on Molokai - Group Action
3:30-3:45 p.m. The “Ka‘Ano” Project by Jade Bruhjell (short overview).
3:45-5:00 p.m. Group Break Outs Session - Convene By Areas and Brainstorm
In These Groups To Discuss;
• Seed Growing
• Challenges and Opportunities
• How to create a seed network - what would this look like? Seed Exchanges, Seed library, Seed potlucks, Other ideas?

3:45-4:15 p.m. Reconvene and Share your ideas with each other.


Mahalo to Our Workshop Presenters:
Hector Valenzuela, Ph.D., CTAHR Extension - Vegetable specialist.
Russell Nagata, Ph.D., CTAHR County of Hawai‘i Extension Administrator - Lettuce propagation and seed production specialist.
Glenn Teves, CTAHR Moloka‘i Extension Office - Taro And Tomato Propagation Specialist.
Alton Arakaki - CTAHR Moloka‘i Extension Agent
Ellen Sugawara - Co-owner and operator of Papohaku Biodynamic Farm
Nancy Redfeather - Program Director - Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative & Program Director Of The Hawai'i Island School Garden Network & Co-Owner Of Kawanui Farm on Hawai‘I Island.
Jennifer Hawkins - CTAHR Moloka‘i Extension Agent
Kawika Duvauchelle - NRCS Plant Materials Center
Jade Bruhjell - The “Ka‘Ano” Project
Lyn Howe - Workshop Coordinator