Applications for the 2016–2017 cohort of FoodCorps Hawai‘i service members are available at foodcorps.org. The deadline to apply is March 30, 2016. For more information about FoodCorps Hawai‘i please visit kohalacenter.org/hisgn/foodcorps-hawaii. You can also follow FoodCorps Hawai‘i on Facebook at facebook.com/FoodCorpsHawaii.
January 13, 2016 (West Hawaii Today)—The early morning air at Kawanui Farm was filled with the sweet scent of wood smoke. Gerry Herbert emerged from the house to greet me, dressed warmly. “We have a fire in the fireplace almost every morning in winter,” he said, rubbing his hands together to retain their warmth. He […]
December 16, 2015 (North Hawaii News)—Teachers gathered at Paniau in Puako for a field workshop, provided by The Kohala Center’s HI-MEET (Hawaii Meaningful Environmental Education for Teachers) program on Dec. 5. They know where authentic learning takes place and it’s not necessarily in the classroom. Observation, questions, data collection, analysis; these are the science activities […]
November 24, 2015 (North Hawaii News)—Three Native Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2015–2016 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows to pursue original research and advance their academic careers. One of the recipients, Natalie Kurashima, lives in Waimea. » Read more
November 24, 2015 (North Hawai‘i News)—Three Native Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2015–2016 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows to pursue original research and advance their academic careers. One of the recipients, Natalie Kurashima, lives in Waimea. » Read more
November 17, 2015 (The Garden Island)—One Kauai native and two other Hawaii natives have been selected as the 2015–16 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows. The honor allows the three students to pursue original research and advance their academic careers. » Read more
November 10, 2015 (Big Island Now)—The 2015-2016 Mellon-Hawai’i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows have been selected. Three Native Hawaiian scholars will pursue original research and advance their academic careers through the program. »Read more
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—November 10, 2015—Three Native Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2015–2016 Mellon-Hawaiʻi Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows to pursue original research and advance their academic careers. » Read more
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—October 15, 2015—Hawai‘i Island teachers and their students will have opportunities this year to leave the classroom and study firsthand the island’s ahupua‘a, or traditional Hawaiian mountain-to-sea land divisions. The Kohala Center is recruiting teachers for its Hawai‘i Island Meaningful Environmental Education for Teachers (HI-MEET) program, an innovative, hands-on, science-based program that focuses on bay and watershed education in […]
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—September 24, 2015—Two programs aimed at training and supporting the next generation of farmers in Hawai‘i are seeking applicants for sessions being offered this fall. » Read more