Free Event
Bring your favorite dishes using only locally grown food for the 100% LOCAL FOOD COOK OFF AND POTLUCK!! Optional competition for best main dish, side dish, and desert—contact tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com for more information.
Bring seeds only (please no plants, cuttings, or keiki, etc).
• Exchange and give away localized seeds (bringing seeds not required)
• Hear a panel on “Growing Local Favorite Foods”
• Enjoy Hula performances or Dance to Marimba Music!
• Enter the Local Cook Off!
• Try new taste delights at the Local Food Potluck!
• Meet your neighbors, other gardeners, and innovative thinkers

Compost/Worm Compost Workshop Two Locations! Date: Saturday, October 22, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Location: Waimea Country School, 10:00 a.m–Noon Location: Pa‘auilo School Cafeteria, 2-4pm Sponsored by Hawaii Rainbow Worms & Recycle Hawaii For more information or to register contact Donna Mitts at dmitts@kohalacenter.org or call 936-2117.

Clever gadgets, heart-tugging treasures, and great bargains will be among the finds offered during Waimea’s 3rd “Culinary and Garden Garage Sale”. Great finds donated to the garage sale include such clever gadgets as “a lawn shark” (a tool that looks like a serrated-edge pie cutter on a long handle for edging sod), a “garden weasel” (a miniature hand cultivator for working up soil), and a “hula hoe” (a tool that looks like rotating spurs on a long wooden handle, used to hand-till soil). Also included in the growing list of treasures are a wide array of cookbooks from the shelves of many of Waimea’s best cooks plus culinary collectibles such as a plantation-era sieve, beautiful serving platters, dishes and glassware, linens, and contemporary kitchen appliances and garden equipment. Sponsored by Slow Food Hawai‘i with kokua from the Waimea Homestead Farmers’ Market, the fundraiser will support the now seven-year-old Mala‘ai school garden, which has become a statewide model for hands-on, experiential learning focused on growing and sharing fresh, organic produce and, in the process, supporting student and community health, wellness, environmental and cultural stewardship and academic progress. Donations are still welcome. Please drop them off at Waimea Middle School’s office or call Slow Food Hawai‘i Leader Clare Bobo (936-6511) or Mala‘ai school garden Board member Jeanne Oshima (887-1027).

4th Annual Hawai‘i School Garden Conference will be held July 7-8, 2011, at the Hoa ‘Aina O Makaha Farm on the Waianae Coast, O‘ahu Conference Web site: https://kohalacenter.org/plantinghope/about.html   Applications and draft agenda for the Conference will be posted by March 15 on this page. Teams of two (2) from each school are recommended.

Piper has helped many Hawai‘i Island residents learn the art of composting. Join us for a free workshop at Pa‘auilo School. After the workshop, garden teacher Donna Mitts will give a tour of the school garden and Wormville, a mid-scale worm composting system used to convert cafeteria food waste into valuable fertilizer.