[Laakea-events] Seed Exchange & Upcoming Events

Thu Sep 20 10:48:49 HST 2012

    On Sept 21st La'akea Community will be having a Seed Exchange
    Preparation Morning!
     From 9am - 1pm
    Come in your yard work clothes and help us prepare the site for this
    wonderful FREE family and community centered annual event.  We
    really appreciate your time!  Bring a sack lunch or something to
    share with others for the end of our working together, around 12:30.
    RSVP for directions
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    East Side Seed Exchange &  Harvest Festival!*
    *Saturday, September 22, 2012*
    *9:00am - 2:30pm*

    Bring your favorite dishes using only locally grown food
    for the 2nd Annual 100% LOCAL FOOD COOK OFF AND POTLUCK!!
    Optional competition for best savory and sweet dish - contact
    Bring Seeds AND Plant Cuttings and Bare Roots (Please Check for Fire
    Ants)
    o        Exchange and give away localized plant material (bringing
    not required)
    o        Hear a panel on "Preparing Local Favorite Foods, Dealing
    with Fire Ants, Slugs & Rats"
    o        Enter the Local Cook Off!
    o        Try new taste delights at the Local Food Potluck!
    o        Meet your neighbors, other gardeners&  innovative thinkers.

    This event is free

    Schedule:
    Set up open at 8:30 am
        (bring your own tables and chairs, and
        scrap paper for small packets for seeds)
    Opening Circle 9:00
    Plant Material Swap: 9:15
    Panel Presentation: 10:00
    100% Local Food Contest: 11:45
    Local Food Potluck: 12:30 (bring your own plates, utensils, etc)
    Marimba Dance with Mwenje 1:15 pm

    To enter the local foods cooking competition or to present your favorite
    local food please contact Tracy at permaculture-hawaii.com
    <mailto:Tracy at permaculture-hawaii.com>
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    Designing For Sustainability and Food Security *
    *Fall 2012 Weekend Permaculture Design Course *

This unique, exciting permaculture design course is designed especially 
for Hawaii Island residents!

    * Weekend class format -- no need to use vacation or take time off 
work to complete a permaculture design course.
    * Acquire the skills to achieve food security and create sustainable 
home systems.
    * Learn locally proven designs and methodologies from instructors 
and presenters who understand Hawai'i's varying microclimates
    * Develop supportive relationships with like-minded neighbors, 
established organizations and professionals in your area.
    * Design for your property during the course with professional support.

Participants who meet course completion requirements will receive the 
internationally recognized Permaculture Design Course Certificate.

The course meets two weekends per month in the fall of 2012: Oct 13-14 
and 20-21, Nov 3-4 and 17-18, Dec 1-2 and 8-9
Classes are held from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day and include a 
delicious, nutritious, locally grown lunch. Some class days will have 
optional evening events including permaculture movies and conversation 
time.
Hosted by La'akea Permaculture Community -- see the rest of this web 
site for more about La'akea.

Early bird registration only $750 if paid by September 1st!
After September 1st -- sliding scale $1,000 -- $800

Tuition includes lunch on class days and all instruction and other 
course activities. Dinner and overnight lodging with breakfast available 
at additional cost.

For more information or to register:
tracy at permaculture-hawaii.com
808-443-4076

Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is an ecological design system that 
draws on knowledge of natural ecosystems, traditional indigenous 
practices, and modern scientific and farming techniques. A permaculture 
approach is one of working with rather than against nature. Permaculture 
offers a proactive approach to meeting human needs in ways that are 
sustainable for future generations.

This design course is hosted by La'akea Permaculture Community, an 
intentional community focused on sustainability. The 23-acre La'akea 
site is full of the results of  hands-on design projects implemented by 
permaculture students and community members, and offers a wide variety 
of real-life examples of sustainable living techniques.

Facilitators and teachers:
Tracy Matfin of La'akea Community
John Schinnerer of Eco-Living
Wade Bauer of OnoScapes Hawaii Edible Landscaping and Permaculture Design
Dona Willoughby of La'akea Community

Additional instructors and special guests to be announced soon!

For complete details go here:
http://tinyurl.com/laakea-fall-2012-pdc
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Seed Basics & Production Workshop for Farmers & Gardeners/*
*A Two Day Intensive Hands-on Workshop *//
*Sat. Nov 3rd & Sunday Nov. 4th, 2012*//

Location: Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Captain Cook**
*Cost of the workshop: *$50 for both days and includes a Seed Manual and 
lunches.
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The Seed Basics and Production worksop is designed to create a practical 
working knowledge of; seed production, botany and biology, techniques 
for plant selection, how to conduct variety trials, disease issues, seed 
harvesting, cleaning, and proper seed saving and storage. In the first 
year, presentations and hands-on fieldwork will focus on the examples of 
growing lettuce and tomato to seed. Propagation of the Hawaiian crops, 
sweet potato and taro will also be discussed.Participants will be able 
to practice harvesting and cleaning seed as well as learn how to select, 
prepare and, store fresh seed. Strategies to account for differences in 
elevation, weather patterns, rainfall and disease resistance and ideas 
for creating Island Seed Networks will also be discussed. Participants 
will be given seed for variety trials, information collected will be 
used to evaluate these varieties in a 5-island plant trial.
Friday, November 2nd, 3-5pm 10th Annual Hawai'i Island Westside Seed 
Exchange
(optional activity)
At Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden.This year we have also invited 
students from the Hawai'i Island School garden Network to bring seed 
saved. The public is welcome - bring and share your seeds. If you are 
attending the workshop please consider joining us.

    Camping is available at the Amy Greenwell Garden Friday & Saturday
    Night - you _must _make a reservation.

Presentors will include:
/. 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.
.Paul Massey, Regenerations Botanical Garden & Community Seed Bank, Kaua'i/
/.Nancy Redfeather, Hawai'i Island School Garden Network Program 
Director, Coordinator Hawai'i //Public Seed Initiative & Co-owner of 
Kawanui Farm, Captain Cook /
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*Five Youth Scholarships*will be offered to students interested in 
agriculture from grade 11-college level. We encourage the teachers on 
the island to notify their students about this opportunity.
/_For more information about these workshops and camping reservations; 
contact Lyn Howe 808-756-5310 or seedproject at kohalacenter.org 
<mailto:seedproject at kohalacenter.org>_/
/Online payment, registration and scholarship forms can be downloaded at/:
http://kohalacenter.org/seedbasicsworkshop/hawaii.html
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