Category: La’akea Updates
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What are these huge leaves?
Have you ever noticed how many HUGE leaves there are in Hawaii? Here are some from the La’akeq land. Do you know the names of the plants?
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2013 Local Food Contest Entries- Volcanic Sweet Potatoes!
Yum! Check out these wonderful dishes that we all enjoyed at the Seed Exchange this year!
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2013 Seed Exchange- Videos of the Speakers
We had a wonderful annual seed exchange this year, with a nice big crowd, lots of good food, and some really fine speakers. Here are the links to the movies of the talks, so you can learn too! Summary list: See below for vids Saving Your Garden Seeds Raw Dairy Politics and Health Making Raw…
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Local Food recipes, winner! 2012 Cookoff
100% LOCAL FOOD COOK OFF AND POTLUCK! Here are some of the recipe entrees for our 2012 contest…. The winner was… Alasandra, for her Mac Nut Pate! These were some of the other yummy entrees:
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Fall Equinox Festival Seed Exchange 2012 Report
Report on our seed exchange, Saturday September 22nd, 2012 At La’akea Permaculture Community We had a fantastic Seed Exchange, with over 130 people attending, lots of trading local plants, and yummy food! There were informational tables on GMO food and local efforts for other sustainable practices. Our panel included Kumu Dane Silva, who did…
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Winter Internship and Permaculture course were amazing!
Winter was a busy time for us here, with non stop events for a couple of months. It was amazing, stimulating and rewarding to have 16 people join us for the month of February, and 25 join us for the 2 week Permaculture Design Course in March. What a high quality of people are coming…
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Update 2010 New Year
Tracy’s 2009 Update! Happy, Happy, Happy New Year! Can you believe it? We made it to 2010!! When I was a kid, I remember calculating how old I would be in the year 2000, now I’ve made it to that mile marker and beyond. What an amazing year it has been. So many of my…
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Update in 2008
So much has happened…. here’s a glimpse! We began an internship program to complement our existing work exchange program in the summer of ’07. That first summer the enrollment wasn’t sufficient to run a full program, but we had a group of folks arrive at the same time anyway as work exchangers. This created a…
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Starting in 2006
In the beginning in 2006: That’s Dona walking from the main house to the meadow space. We’re blazing new trails in our 6 acres of Ohia forest to enable us to remove non-native species, plant native, edible and useful species. Here’s our new fruit tree nursery. We’re propagating species such as: abiu,…