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Upcoming

USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Workshops
Hilo, Waimea, and Kealakekua, Hawai‘i Island
May 13-14, 2014

The Seventh Annual School Learning Garden Symposium
Waimea, Hawai‘i Island
June 7, 2014

ʻĀINA In Schools Garden & Nutrition Curriculum Training
Waimea, Hawai‘i Island
June 8, 2014

Kū ‘Āina Pā Summer Intensive
Waimea, Hawai‘i Island
June 9-11, 2014

Waimea School Garden Tours
Waimea, Hawai‘i Island
June 12, 2014

Natural Farming Certification Course
Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i Island
June 17-21, 2014





Recent News

The Honaunau School garden, run by Melissa Chivers and Jessica Sobocinski, is more than just a place where flowers and vegetables grow; it is a living classroom where students and teachers can observe, interact with, and learn about the natural world that is responsible for supporting human existence on this planet.
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Almost two years since it was completed, The Kohala Center’s Health Impact Assessment on Hawaii County’s Agriculture Plan has garnered national attention and helped produce meaningful effects on the local food system.
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The Cornell Earth and Environmental Systems Field Program

Cornell University’s Earth and Environmental Systems Field Program (EES) is based primarily on Hawaiʻi Island with field trips to the other islands, the program unites classroom study and hands-on field research. The program is available to all interested and enrolled university students and is offered in collaboration with The Kohala Center.

Hawaiʻi Island, as a dynamic and natural living laboratory, allows participants to study:
  • a variety of ecosystems and their development through time
  • the influence of human life on plant and animal species
  • geologic processes
  • Pacific marine environments

Participants apply fundamental scientific concepts in geology, chemistry, and biology to the native environment and complement scientific study with Hawaiian history and culture.

EES program students are housed in Waiaka House in Waimea, an 8-bedroom home near the upper campus of Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy. Participants spend most days in the field—often all day, leaving just after breakfast and returning just before dinner. Field trips are half-days, with morning or afternoon lectures or labs. There are overnight excursions to the islands of Maui and Kaua‘i. Field work requires hiking, sometimes at high altitudes, and the ability to swim as some work is done in or on the ocean.

Visit http://www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii or contact Dr. Alexandra Moore at am113@cornell.edu for additional information. Also, please feel free to contact The Kohala Center at info@kohalacenter.org or 808-887-6411.