HISGN Past Events

February 7, 2015—Facilitated by Kalu Oyama. Open to all K-12 teachers. FoodCorps Service Member Kalu Oyama will share her knowledge on balancing our garden soil and improving plant vigor using natural farming methods. The presentation will include a discussion on the similarities between plants and people and the four nutritive stages. Participants will make fermented plant and fruit juices and take home materials on natural farming.

January 24, 2015—Facilitated by Hayley Blondin. Open to all K-12 teachers; content will emphasize grades K-5. Augment your toolkit for making connections between the classroom and the garden in this interactive, resource-rich workshop. Hayley will share curriculum plans and resources to develop a unit around the planting, cultivation, and harvest of the traditional Native American Three Sisters Garden. Resources include grade-level appropriate readers, writing prompts, recipes, craft ideas, planting materials and tips, sample student work, and much more. While originally designed for third grade, this unit can be modified to meet the needs of any K-5 elementary classroom. This workshop will focus on the Three Sisters Garden, but will cultivate techniques and ideas about how to develop unit plans for other gardens such as salsa gardens, canoe-plant gardens, and pollinator gardens.

View or download the Teachers Teaching Teachers Workshops poster (PDF).

For more information and to register, contact Donna Mitts at dmitts@kohalacenter.org or 808-936-2117.