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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 Kohala Center has developed great expertise in, and derives great comfort from, building partnerships, working with island and scientific communities, and supporting the development of effective teaching and research programs. The Center currently works with the County of Hawaiʻi, the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation, Hawaiʻi Community College, the Kamehameha Schools, the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and Mānoa, Brown University, Cornell University, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Redlands Institute, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, U.H. Sea Grant College Program, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Washington at Seattle and Friday Harbor, among many others.

The Kohala Center fulfills all the typical functions of a research institute, including (a) accessing viable research sites, (b) providing logistics support, (c) locating suitable accommodations, (d) accessing appropriate laboratory space, (e) offering grant writing and grant management services, (f) managing foundation and government relations, (g) developing major donor relations, and (h) providing fiscal services. The Kohala Center is noted for its critical and key competence in community and public relations, without which research programs often run aground and without which educational programs garner little support from the communities they are intended to serve.

In its work with its partners, The Kohala Center prides itself in “taking care of anything and everything that can get in the way of good research and good teaching.”

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