Category Archives: La’akea Updates
2013 Local Food Contest Entries- Volcanic Sweet Potatoes!
Yum! Check out these wonderful dishes that we all enjoyed at the Seed Exchange this year!
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: … Continue reading
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:
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading