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SAVE OUR SEEDS!
November 14, 2012
CTAHR Notes
Over 180 enthusiastic gardeners and farmers attended the series of two-day seed-saving and production workshops held on Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui, Moloka‘i, and the Big Island. The workshops, part of a statewide Hawaii Public Seed Initiative, aim to help develop community seed networks and seed banks. Co-sponsored by the Kohala Center of Hawai‘i Island and CTAHR, they were funded by a grant from the CERES trust fund.
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Seed basics for life
September 30, 2012
By Russell T. Nagata Special to West Hawaii Today
It doesn’t matter if you “eat to live” or “live to eat,” plants make up one of the three or four essential parts of our existence. Over millennia of civilization, we have learned to nurture plants in order that we may have some control over our destiny. Seeds, whether for vegetables, ornamentals or fruits provide ways to restart our garden plantings season after season. And if “seeds” is loosely defined, we can include cuttings and other forms of vegetative planting material. Seeds form a chain from the past to the present and a link into the future providing a path and a sense of security as we venture forward. They are the starting point of many good things. Without seeds, the world we know would not exist.
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Saving methods, production topics of seed workshop
July 29, 2012
Molokai - A two-day workshop for farmers and gardeners on seed production and seed-saving methods will be held Aug. 24 and 25 in Hoolehua by the Hawaii Public Seed Initiative. The workshop will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24 at Lanikeha Center and from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Plant Materials Center.
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Learn why and how to save seed at Molokai workshop
July 23, 2012
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—July 23, 2012—A workshop for farmers and gardeners on seed production and seed saving methods offered by Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative will be held Friday, August 24, and Saturday, August 25, in Ho‘olehua on Moloka‘i. The workshop will be at Lanikeha Center and at the NRCS Plant Materials Center. Registration and scholarship application deadline is August 19.
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Hawaii Seed Experts Gather for Maui Workshop
April 24, 2012
A workshop for farmers and gardeners on why and how to save seed will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, at Noho‘ana Farm in Waikapu and Kupa‘a Farm in Kula. An optional farm tour will also be held on Monday, May 21, at The Maui Farm in Makawao. The two-day workshop is designed to create a practical working knowledge of seed growing, botany and biology, plant selection, seed harvesting, cleaning, and saving.
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Regenerations Botanical Garden Newsletter
February 15, 2012
In November the Hawai`i Public Seed Initiative held it's first "Seed Basics Workshop for Farmers and Gardeners" at KCC and the Regenerations Seed Garden. Regenerations is partnering with the Kohala Center and the University of Hawai`i at Manoa Extension Service to produce two workshops on each of the five main Hawaiian Islands over the course of the next two years.
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The GardenTalks: The State of Seeds
Highlights from the first Hawai'i Public Seed Initiative workshop
December 27, 2011
By Colleen Carroll
In the not so distant past, seeds were one of the most valuable currencies one could have. Just imagine for a moment no Home Depot, no Internet, and no seed catalogue sales. Where would we get our seeds? In years past, seeds were a strong commodity, and special varieties would be handed down from generation to generation, moving across time and across countries: Auntie’s beans, Uncle’s tatsoi, the yam from my grandmother’s garden, and the basil from my family in Italy.
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Not Just Any Seed
October 30, 2011
Community Contributed by Glenn I. Teves, UH County Extension Agent
Some people think that saving seeds is a waste of time because it’s easier to order them from a seed catalog or pick them up at the nearest supermarket. It’s not that simple. Some varieties developed for cold climates may not be the best for us. Good seed must be adapted to our special climate considering all its idiosyncrasies, such as high humidity, warm nights and arid conditions. Not just any seed will do.
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Saving Seeds
October 13, 2011
by
Joan Conrow
“I pretty much think saving seed is the most important thing we can do on the planet,” says Paul Massey, founder of Regenerations Botanical Garden in Kilauea. “We’re at a tipping point, where we still have an amazing amount of plant diversity, but it’s disappearing rapidly.” Massey will be one of the speakers at a two-day workshop aimed at teaching folks how to save seeds. The deadline to register, and apply for youth scholarships, is Thursday, Oct. 20.
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land of the giants: plants that is.
October 2, 2011
A year travels by quickly and it has been almost one year to the day marking my first visit to the Kilauea Community Garden. I was led here by curiosity–a desire to learn more about this new revolution in community gardening taking place on the island of Kauai. At the heart of it is sustainability and a strong commitment to growing more local food using environmentally conscious methods and techniques. This garden, under the careful hands of the community is yielding plants that are enormous specimens of their type, whether they are filled with fruit, flowers or seeds.
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2011 East Hawai‘i Harvest Festival video
Every fall, La'akea Permaculture Community hosts a Seed Exchange, where local farmers and gardeners can come to share seeds and information about local food growing techniques. This year we also had a local foods cooking contest! Share the fun.
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