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East Side Seed Exchange & Harvest Festival – POSTPONED

La'akea Permaculture Community Alaili Road, Pahoa, HI, United States

October 4, 2014—Join us for a Seed and Plant Exchange AND Local Foods Potluck! Bring seeds, plants, cuttings, or keiki - MUST BE FIRE ANT TESTED prior to transporting to La‘akea.

Bring your favorite dishes using only locally grown food for the Third Annual 100% LOCAL FOOD CONTEST AND POTLUCK!

Contact tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com for more information and directions.

UPDATE:

Aloha La'akea friends and family,

We have decided to postpone this year's seed exchange. We do not have a new date as of yet. Our date was October 4th and many people's energy (including our own) is being directed differently in preparation for the potential highway closing.

Once things have settled down a bit we will notify you about a gathering with more of a self-reliance focus.

Free

KWP Volunteer Day: Let’s Plant a Forest!

The Kohala Center 65-1291A Kawaihae Rd, Kamuela, HI, United States

October 11, 2014–KWP has been growing Kohala’s native trees and shrubs from seeds collected during workdays across the mountain since 2009. We just did the math and an amazing 600 people have planted trees on Kohala Mountain; the total number of trees from volunteers alone is 27,000 trees! That added to the more than 50,000 trees planted by the KWP partners and crew comes to a whopping total of 77,000 trees. WOWEE!

Free

Food Industry Fundamentals Workshops (Waimea)

Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Kūhiō Hall 64-756 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kamuela, HI, United States

October 16, 2014–Get the edge on the local food marketplace! Join us for two in-depth workshops in Waimea:

Workshop #1: Food Product Development and Technology Essentials
This course will move from “farm to fork” to explore the many product development technologies that can be utilized for optimal quality and enhanced food safety. These include good agricultural practices (GAPs), cold chain management, product formulation options, thermal and non-thermal processing technologies, extended shelf-life packaging considerations, and best practices in distribution. Innovative technologies such as modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), sous vide, cook chill, and high pressure processing will be discussed as well. You’ll learn current best practices in product development, and how to optimize product quality.

Workshop #2: Quality Assurance and Food Safety Principles
Farmers, processors, retailers and food service operators must have an understanding of the principles of food safety in order to minimize risk to the public. In this course, you’ll learn how to create a holistic food safety and quality system—including management commitment, facility infrastructure requirements, sanitation, pest control, personnel practices, training, microbiological testing, traceability and crisis management, food security, and HACCP. An overview of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and third-party food safety and quality certification programs will be provided."

Register online at http://www.hawaii.hawaii.edu/ocet or click here to view the event flyer for more detail.

$39

Food Industry Fundamentals Workshops (Kailua-Kona)

King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel Kailua-Kona, HI, United States

October 17, 2014–Get the edge on the local food marketplace! Join us for two in-depth workshops in Kona:

Workshop #1: Food Product Development and Technology Essentials
This course will move from “farm to fork” to explore the many product development technologies that can be utilized for optimal quality and enhanced food safety. These include good agricultural practices (GAPs), cold chain management, product formulation options, thermal and non-thermal processing technologies, extended shelf-life packaging considerations, and best practices in distribution. Innovative technologies such as modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), sous vide, cook chill, and high pressure processing will be discussed as well. You’ll learn current best practices in product development, and how to optimize product quality.

Workshop #2: Quality Assurance and Food Safety Principles
Farmers, processors, retailers and food service operators must have an understanding of the principles of food safety in order to minimize risk to the public. In this course, you’ll learn how to create a holistic food safety and quality system—including management commitment, facility infrastructure requirements, sanitation, pest control, personnel practices, training, microbiological testing, traceability and crisis management, food security, and HACCP. An overview of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and third-party food safety and quality certification programs will be provided."

Register online at http://www.hawaii.hawaii.edu/ocet or click here to view the event flyer for more detail.

$39

Squash-Growing Class:
Using heirloom squash to outsmart melon fly and pickle worm (Nā‘ālehu)

Nā‘ālehu Public Library 95-5669 Mamalahoa Hwy, Naalehu, HI, United States

October 21, 2014—Waimea farmer Anna Peach of Squash and Awe farm will be presenting a talk about her sustainable farming methods. A seventh-generation farmer, Anna decided to look to history for a solution to Hawai‘i’s commercial crop failure. She will be sharing information about no-till farming, interplanting with native plants, seed saving, and making natural fertilizers from restaurant scrap. This event is free and open to the public. See her farm at http://www.squashandawe.com.

Free

Squash-Growing Class:
Using heirloom squash to outsmart melon fly and pickle worm (Pāhala)

Pāhala Public Library 96-3150 Pikake St, Pahala, HI, United States

October 22, 2014—Kamuela Farmer Anna Peach of Squash and Awe farm will be presenting a talk about her sustainable farming methods. A seventh generation farmer, Anna decided to look to history for a solution to Hawai‘i’s commercial crop failure. She will be sharing information about no-till farming, inter planting with native plants, seed saving, and making natural fertilizers from restaurant scrap. This event is free and open to the public. See her farm at http://www.squashandawe.com.

Free

Wet Forest Work Day: Controlling invasive ginger on Kohala

The Kohala Center 65-1291A Kawaihae Rd, Kamuela, HI, United States

November 8, 2014—There is nothing like the sound of the sickle slicing through a ginger stem, and that funny squeak of the sprayer as you squirt the blue stuff, stem by stem, knowing that you are liberating native plants to live free of a noxious forest invader. Some of you ginger ninjas out there are nodding your head, smiling, knowing just what I mean! For those of you who are ginger control neophytes, this coming Saturday may be your day to join the ranks of the forest protection posse, and find out why we love to spend time in this gorgeous forest controlling an invasive plant!

Free

‘Ai Pono Workshop #2: “Hawaiian Cordage and Fiber”

Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden 82-6160 Mamalahoa Hwy, Captain Cook, HI, United States

November 8, 2014—Facilitated by Gary Eoff. Open to all K-12 teachers. Gary Eoff will share his knowledge of local plants and traditional methods of preparation and weaving. We will also be harvesting and prepping cordage material. Student and teacher cordage will be included in the makana (offerings) that the Hōkūle‘a gives at her ports of call. Eoff is an artist and craftsman with a strong passion for communicating cultural knowledge with teachers and students.

Free