Moloka‘i Workshop Presentations
August 24-25, 2012
The Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative held the fourth of its five-island, 2-day seed workshops at the Lanikeha Center in Ho‘olehua with a tour of the NRCS Plant Materials Center to tour their seed production farm and seed processing facility. A beautiful lunch of locally sourced produce was catered by Jamie Ronzello of Barking Deer Farm and Carol Harms. This workshop was designed to create a practical working knowledge of seed growing, botany and biology, selection, harvesting, cleaning, and saving of various types of seed.
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Click here to view the photo gallery and slideshow of the Maui 2012 workshop.
Click here to download the Variety Trial Log Sheet
Download the Moloka‘i Seed Basics Poster.
The Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative by Nancy Redfeather, Coordinator HPSI
• Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
• Public Seed Commons: A Brief History of the Seed Industry
History of Seed Production and Crop Breeding in Hawai‘i by Hector Valenzuela
• Brief Summary of Statewide Seed Assesment from the 2010 Seed Symposium
Seed Basics: Botany and Biology by Russell Nagata
• Monocot and Dicot Plant Differences
• Open-Pollinated/Hybrid/Heirloom
• Inbreeding/outbreeding: Know Your Crops Mating preferences
• Selfing/Cross Pollination Pollen Transfer (wind, insect, human)
• Reproductive Cycles: Annuals, Biennials, Perennials
• Different Strategies – population numbers, isolation distances, roughing and selection to maintain seed purity
Growing Tomato for Seed in the Garden by Glenn Teves
Overview of what conventional tomato breeders might consider:
• Selecting for cultivars with characteristics that address the special needs of Island propagation
Growing Requirements for Producing Lettuce for Seed by Russell Nagata
• Cleaning Techniques for Dry Seeded Crops
• Pollination, Isolation, Optimum Number of Plants
• Seed Purity, Improving Lettuce Varieties, Roguing and Selection
• Seed Storage, Viability Testing
Mahalo to our Presenters!
- Hector Valenzuela, Ph.D., CTAHR Extension – Vegetable specialist.
- Russell Nagata, Ph.D., CTAHR County of Hawai‘i Extension Administrator- Lettuce propagation and seed production specialist.
- Glenn Teves, CTAHR Moloka‘i Extension Office – Taro And Tomato Propagation Specialist.
- Ellen Sugawara, Co-owner and operator of Papohaku Biodynamic Farm.
- Nancy Redfeather, Program Director, Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative; Program Director, The Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network; Co-Owner, Kawanui Farm, Hawai‘i Island.
- Alton Arakai, Extension Agent Moloka‘i
- Jennifer Hawkins – CTAHR Moloka‘i Extension Agent
- Kawika Duvauchelle – NRCS Plant Materials Center