**** We'll be having a land preparation
gathering tomorrow - Wednesday, 10/21, from 9:30-12:30
AND we're looking for help on the day of - Saturday
10/24!
If you are able and willing please send me an email and we'd
greatly appreciate the support putting on this annual
community event!
10th
Annual East Side Seed Exchange
Saturday, October 24th, 2015
9:00am -
3:00pm
- Bring your favorite
dishes focusing on fresh and locally grown produce for
the Potluck!
- Bring Seeds AND Fire Ant
FREE Plant Cuttings and Bare Roots (Please Check for
Fire Ants)
- Dance with Kunzwanana
marimba band!
- Hear an Update on Seed
Saving Across the State
- Enjoy the Potluck!
- Meet your neighbors,
other gardeners & innovative thinkers.
- Tour La'akea Community
- If you have come to our seed exchange at least 5
times in the last 10 years ...please come and be
acknowledged as one of our esteemed seed ambassadors.
Schedule:
Set up open at 9:00 am
(bring your own tables and chairs, and
scrap paper for small packets for seeds)
9:30 Opening Circle
9:45 Seed & Plant Material Swap
10:30 Tour of La'akea
11:30 Seed Saving Update and Knowledge Share
12:45 Potluck (bring your own plates, utensils, etc)
1:15 - 2:15
Kunzwanana marimba band!
This event is free!!
How to Check for Fire Ants:
www.littlefireants.com/fact%20sheet%203%20-%20lfa%20survey.pdf
Seed Sharing Protocol:
2. Do not share brassica seeds
as spread of blackrot can happen, it is a seed-borne disease
and many of the seed companies are having a problem with
this.
3. Do not share old seeds as
germination may be low.
4. label or bring a
description of each of the seeds you share including date of
harvest.
5. Bring your own seed
envelopes or baggies and markers for labeling.
6. Do not bring seeds and put
them on another seed-sharers table unless you have a very good
description of the seeds/date and crop and permission of the
person at the table.
Co-sponsored by The Hawaii Public Seed Initiative
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Directions:
La'akea Community, Pahoa, Puna, Hawaii: 13-3844 Ala'ili Rd.
Take Hwy 130 off of Hwy 11, near Kea'au, to Pahoa
Stay on hwy 130 past Pahoa
Just past mile marker 14, turn Rt onto Ala'ili Rd.
Go down Ala'ili Rd. about one mile, turn Rt into La'akea driveway.
Proceed past the "park here" sign to the "main house".
Park here and proceed on foot to the main house.
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Puna Wild
Crafter Certification
Hawaiian Plant Medicines with David Bruce
Leonard
When: 5 Weekends at La'akea Community
Nov. 7/8, 21/22
Dec. 5/6, 19/20
Jan. 9/10
Learn Medicine Making, Herbal Cosmetics, Gathering Protocols, 30
Local Plant Medicines, Inflammation & Immunity, Herbs as Food
and Food as Medicine!
Fee: $1295 ($1095 by Oct. 7th) payment plans available
Lodging, Camping, Kitchen, Food available for extra fee
Registration: Theressa Latoski <entwife112@gmail.com>
(808) 982-4348
More Information: EarthMedicineInstitute.com
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Community
Tour
at
La'akea Intentional
Community, Pahoa
Where: La'akea
Community, meet at Main House
When: Saturday, December
5th
@ 9:30 am
Cost: Donation,
suggested $5-15 if you can. No one turned away.
More Info:
call Aniko for more info at
443-4076 or
reply to this email.
Description:
Come join us for a tour of our
community! Allow Aniko, one
of our members, to walk you around the land,
including our organic gardens, alternative building methods,
off grid solar system, animals and orchards.
We are a committed group of people working together closely in
community, on our 24 acre organic permaculture farm. We
integrate the social aspects of sustainability into daily life:
how to live together with honesty, love and peace, and share
power and leadership. We do not have one central leader, but
instead share the cost of the land and the leadership equally. This is a great time to tour the land and ask
questions about community.
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New Culture
Community
Winter Camp
Come
Join us for a totally Unique, Intimate, Amazing and Powerful Social
Co-creation
Where: La'akea Community
When: Jan. 13 - Jan. 19th 2016
fee: $450 - $550 sliding scale
Join us in
co-creating safe, nurturing, inspiring community, with a focus
on how we can be deeply connected with each other, with nature
and the world. Come celebrate, be challenged, and enjoy
yourself on the land as we share our talents, knowledge and hearts
with each other. Our rich program will have a
focus on a sustainable culture of interconnections, including
classes in communication skills, Playback Theater, massage, boundaries and more as well as cuddle
puddles, gender circles, Tantra Pujas and a creativity sharing
Cabaret night.
The daily
schedule will include space for morning yoga, ZEGG-style forums,
three meals and time for an afternoon snooze or workshops led by
campers.
See http://www.newculturehawaii.org/hawaiiwintercamp.htm
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Winter
Internship
“I came here to learn about growing things,
and what I really learned about was growing people.” – Emily ’09
Where: La'akea Community
What: Month long adventure
When: 1/27 - 2/24/2016
Cost: $750
More information: www.permaculture-hawaii.com
Contact: tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com
808-443-4076
Description:
Our internship program increases the focus on learning
beyond what you would get as a farm supporter. Participants will
enjoy workshops on permaculture and on communication, interpersonal
and community living skills. This is in addition to your daily
participation in community life and hands-on immersion in
permaculture modalities.
Interns will be given tasks related to
sustainable food/fiber production (tropical fruit orchards,
vegetable gardens, greenhouses, animal systems, coconut tree
climbing and harvesting, bamboo and other timber crops, and local
food preparation).
We have classes in non-violent communication, co-counseling and
other modalities that increase emotional awareness and provide
tools for relationships and community living. We are interested in
sharing what we know – helping to educate through experiential
learning.
“My experience at La’akea taught me not only how to survive off the
grid, but how to engage more with my peers for truly meaningful
relationships. I found it fascinating, enlightening, and very
magical. What a beautiful place and amazing group of people to have
worked with. I can’t wait to come back.” Allie Hubert, Summer 2011