Three Native Hawaiian scholars were recently awarded Mellon-Hawaii Fellowships to advance their academic careers. Marie Alohalani Brown, doctoral candidate in English at University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa), and Kaipo Perez III, doctoral candidate in zoology with a focus in marine ecology at UH Manoa, received doctoral fellowships.
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.
While Hilo Coffee Mill has been producing and roasting quality coffees for more than 11 years, great coffee has been grown on Hawaii Island for more than 180 years. In 1898 there were nearly 6000 acres producing coffee between Hilo Town and Volcano Village.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced recently a commitment of over $560,000 for the Kohala Center’s Kū I Ka Māna New Farmer Training Initiative.
It’s a courtship by the sea, except we’re sitting in a Bakken Foundation classroom north of Kailua-Kona, where ReefTeach trainers show color slides of brilliant and broken corals that flourish and die in Kahalu‘u Bay.
KAMUELA, HI – North Hawaii Community Hospital (NHCH) announces the addition of Robert K. Lindsey to the hospital’s Board of Directors, effective immediately.
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—June 4, 2012—It takes a community to raise a garden, and many community volunteer hands are needed in Hawai‘i Island school gardens. The Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network (HISGN) will offer two free school garden volunteer training classes from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, July 19, and on Thursday, July 26, at Nancy […]
The role of education is pivotal to advancing the ethical development and stewardship of seed for future generations. Here at OSA we continue working to put the control of seed back into the hands of the public.
For amateur gardeners and school garden teachers, it was a free opportunity to explore a different garden space and pick up a few tips. But according to Nancy Redfeather, project director, the Kohala Center’s School Garden Network organized the first Spring School Garden Tour to bring schools and their surrounding community together through their garden.
One of the great joys of what we do is learning about sustainability efforts around the globe. So I was very excited when Karen, who had just given me a heavenly massage, told me about her daughter, Cortney Hoffman, who works at a place I’d never heard of, but which, after I did, knew I wanted to learn about.