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SAME CANOE Sustainable Living News
January 2012 Newsletter, v4, Honaunau, Hawaii
Featuring : 2012 Upcoming Events - Mauka to Makai Field Trip, Butterfly and Honey Bee Buzz,
Local Food System Activities and more |
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QUICK CALENDAR
Jan 10th - Same Canoe launches w/ Botany of Desire at One Island
Jan. 14th - Medicine at Our Feet at One Island
Jan. 27th - Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture at AB Greenwell
Jan 28th - Dog Park Day
at One Island
Feb 3rd - Start Your Own Garden - Yes you can!
at Kuaiwi Farm
Feb. 4th - Mauka to Makai field expedition in Kealakekua
Feb. 11th - Butterfly and Honey Bee Buzz Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
at One Island |
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UPCOMING Events
2012 Local Food Workshops, Festivals and Field Days Mark Your Calendar The Same Canoe Community Garden Project presents an ala carte menu of great garden classes, special events and field trips with the island's BEST teachers: Medicine at Our Feet plant workshop w/ David Bruce Leonard Sat. Jan. 14th Ancient Hawaii Sustainability w/ Noa Lincoln Fri. Jan. 27th Starting an Organic Garden w/ Una Greenaway Fri. Feb. 3rd Mauka to Makai Field Trip w/ Rick Bennett Sat. Feb. 4th Celebrate Pollinators at the Butterfly and Honey Bee Buzz Pancake Breakfast Sat. Feb. 11th The Life of Plants w/ Raven Bolas Fri. Feb. 24th School Gardens w/ Nancy Redfeather Fri. March 2nd Coconut Festival Sat. March 10th Natural Farming w/ Drake Weingart March 23-25th Growing Greens Fri. March 30th Greenhouse and Nursery Starts Fri. Apr. 6th Kava/Kalo Festival Sat. Apr. 14 Growing Soil w/ Gerry Hebert and Nancy Redfeather Fri Apr 20th Beyond Organic w/ Jana Bogs Fri. Apr. 27 Aquaponics and Water Harvesting May 4th and 6th Raised Beds and Container Gardens w/ Raven Bolas and Kally Goschke Fri. May 11th Permaculture w/ Steve Sakala Fri. May 18th Fruit Lovers Festival Sat. May 26th Bio Char June 8-9 Reforestation with Native Trees Sat. June 16th Solfest 2012! Sat. June 23rd | |
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Celebrate Sustainability! |
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Volunteer Days | |
Wednesdays are now the Volunteer Day at One Island. Sign-up for a 'Day on the Farm' and come see, taste, touch and experience sustainable living in action. Email [email protected] to make a reservation.
All ages and abilities welcome. Minimum visit, 3 hours, 9am-2pm.
Dog Park Day
Bring your favorite friend for a fun romp on the farm. Next Doggie Play Day is Saturday, January 28th, 10am-1pm. Bring a picnic and stay for lunch! Email [email protected] for directions | |
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Farmer's Market |  |
Support local farms at the One Island booth, every Sunday at the South Kona Green Market under the Honaunau NOW!
coop banner. Locally grown fruits and vegetables PLUS locally made chocolate, jams and bread. Yum!
Put your money where your heart is - Buy Local! |
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2012 New Year's Goal:
Reclaim our Local Food System
This coming year the focus at One Island is to help foster a stronger local food system. We will be offering 3-4 classes or events per month and launching hands-on service projects that get our team and volunteers out in the local community making a direct impact on improving the availability of fresh and wonderful local foods.
Let's all work together to grow more local food!
If you are curious about how to grow your own food to improve your nutrition and lower your costs - or are passionate about bringing more local food to local families and reversing our import dependence - we invite you to join us for the eye opening, hands-on, and FUN activities we will be delivering at our Sustainable Living Center in Honaunau and on field days out in the West Hawaii community.
Green is a Verb - Do it! |
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2012 Education Program News
Walking the Talk for
Same Canoe Community Garden Project
 West Hawaii non-profit organizations and school garden leaders are invited to join us for community capacity building workshops that begin on January 13th.
A group of 12 non-profit and school sites have been invited to apply for mini-grants to fund a wide variety of People's Garden projects thanks to funding support from the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture. Each applying organization will send representatives to a selection of the workshops being offered (see list to left). In late 2012, 120 neighborhood locations will then begin the program and apply for micro grants to build or restore community gardens. Public participants are also welcome to join in these workshops and festivals. The variety of topics and expertise of the presenters is a great collection of learning opportunities for increasing our community's capacity to GROW OUR OWN FOOD! Express your interest in any of the classes listed in the left column or below with an RSVP to [email protected] to learn more.
January Film Night
The Same Canoe Community Garden Project is launching on January 10th with a community potluck and film night. If you'd like to learn how you can apply for a micro-grant to create a demonstration community garden at your home or on your farm, come learn about the People's Garden Project. We will also show the BOTANY of DESIRE by Michael Pollan, a leading local / grow-your-own food writer and spokesperson. This great film visits four crops who have asserted largely unrecognized influences over human beings to help us help them - fascinating! Potluck 5:30, film 6:30. RSVP to [email protected] for directions.
NEW!! Grow-Your-Own Workshops
These classes will knock your socks off and get your gloves on!
Medicine at Our Feet Workshop
January 14th
David Bruce Leonard is launching our first class in the Same Canoe series. This Saturday workshop on January 14th will introduce us to the medicinal plants all around us and teach us how to harvest and use them. Get bit by a bug? Scrape yourself while gardening? Learn to harvest plants that can help you self-heal. You will be surprised at how many 'weeds' we see everyday are actually healing plants, many used by Native Hawaiians. Move over Noni! - there are MANY helpful plants all around us, all of the time. Learning to see and understand them is a valuable, enriching skill. David is an expert herbalist with Chinese and Hawaiian training and brings a highly respected learning opportunity to us.
Class will be held at One Island, 9am -3pm, with a plant ID walk in the morning and how-to-prepare plant treatments in the afternoon. Class is partially subsidized by One Island to make it affordable for West Hawaii - $35 for the day; optional lunch is $15. Scholarships are available.
Hawaiian Field System Agriculture and
Canoe Plant Food Gardens
Friday, January 27th
 In Hawaii, before European contact, more people inhabited the Big Island than now live here and their remarkable zero-import ahupua'a agriculture system was a model of sustainability. Come learn how they accomplished this and how we can learn from it today. Join our special guide Noa Lincoln, a Stanford PhD researcher, and One Island at the Amy B Greenwell Ethnobotanic Garden, 9am-noon. Come learn about canoe plants that we can plant and enjoy today and discover ingenious systems for watering with-out irrigation, creating our own fertilizers, and other techniques used by Native Hawaiians that are highly relevant today. No fee for this class; please RSVP to [email protected]
Reclaiming our Local Food System requires learning from the past in order to implement a combination of innovative methods that create food sustainability today and tomorrow.
Starting an Organic Food Garden
(Yes, You Can !)
Friday February 3rd
 We are very lucky on the Big Island to have experienced master gardeners and farmers who have been here for over three decades and who are eager to share their knowledge to help us increase our locally-grown food supply. Una Greenaway of Kuaiwi Farm and Feed Hawaii will be leading this great get-started class. You'll learn the whole garden process from selecting a site, composting and building soil, choosing seasonal food crops, planting, maintaining, and harvesting your accomplishments. Space is very limited for this class; bring your own lunch. $30 fee will benefit One Island's Youth Sustainability Camp in June and July. RSVP to [email protected].
See more Same Canoe workshop, festival, and field trip offerings in the calendar to the left. |
Mauka to Makai Field Trip
Saturday, February 4th
 Mauka to Makai is a new natural history field trip program launched by One Island and revolves around quarterly hikes to hard-to-see locations that reveal the inter-connections of our watersheds, flora and fauna on the Big Island.
Next Expedition - February 4th For 2012, we will be hosting the next Mauka to Makai, led by Richard Bennett, on February 4th and it will focus on the Kealakekua watershed with location stops at upper elevation down to sea level. Meet up at One Island at 8am and we'll carpool with 4WD up-mountain and then have lunch down at the shoreline, followed by a marine ecosystem watershed presentation. Easy hiking; bring water, sun protection and a picnic lunch.
$15 donation ($25 couple) goes to support the Summer Youth Camp. |
Get the Butterfly and Honey Bee Buzz
at our Pancake Breakfast and Kona Coffee Fundraiser
Saturday February 11th, 9am-noon
 Butterfly Delights February is a good month to come enjoy the six delightful types of butterflies that visit One Island's wildlife gardens on sunny mornings. For this special event we will also be learning about the local Kona queen bees and honey bee pollinators that directly influence food crops on our island and around the world.
 Breakfast Buzz Come enjoy all of the enchanting fluttering and buzzing beside our ocean view terrace over a tasty pancake breakfast fundraiser serving fresh Kona coffee.
Proceeds from the breakfast and coffee will help fund our Summer 2012 Youth Sustainability Camps in June and July. (see below)
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NEW for Summer 2012:
Youth Sustainability Camps
June 18th-23rd; July 16-20th
Growing Leaders Working with young people who are excellent spokespeople and empowering activists for sustainability is an honor and a joy. This summer One Island will be hosting week long retreats for ages 10-18 in June and for ages 14-18 in July. The programs are promoting sustainability leadership and providing hands-on, concrete, real world learning opportunities. If you'd like to nominate a youth for one of the camps, or request a scholarship, Please support our special programs that are raising funds for youth scholarships to the Camps. Or make a donation using the link on the upper left. Mahalo! |
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Barn
Raising
WISH LIST
2012
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One Island is focused on expanding its South Kona Ag Park facility and Programs. To help us better serve more local families, farms, small businesses and non-profits, we are seeking support for the following assistance:
Gleaners to help our community capture abundant foods that would otherwise go to waste
Volunteer Coordinator to help school students and local families be of service
Adminitrative Assistants with experience in community capacity building for Agriculture, Energy, Health and Wellness, Youth and Family, Art and Culture and Natural Resource programs
Videographer to help us capture and share talk story from our participant's perspective
Commercial kitchen facility to help local growers and producers make better use of their produce
Mobile kitchen that can travel to reach remote farm locations to help struggling farmers to create value-added products for market
Solar More funding to help serve the 300 solar grant participants on our waiting list and hundreds more in our service areas
GIS Mapping assistance to document the accomplishments and findings of our projects
Driveway installer to improve access to the farm-based facility
Artists-in-Residence are invited to come for a personal retreat on the farm and bring their music, performace or visual art to our community on the One Island stage and lawn
Help us raise this Sustainability 'Barn' in 2012!
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