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SAME CANOE Sustainable Living News
October 2012 Newsletter. v13. Honaunau, Hawaii
Featuring: Sustainability Innovation Contest, Green Living Fair, Mushroom Workshop,
Fruit Lovers Fest, and 'Greening Your Business' for small and rural businesses |
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QUICK October CALENDAR
Oct 1-5 - Vote: Innovation Contest
Oct 6 - Green Living Fair
Oct 4, 11, 18, 25 - Gleaning Days
Oct 3, 17 - Garden Volunteering
Oct 24 - Food Day Volunteering
Oct 27 -Fruit Lovers Fair
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Get on the Sustainability Bus!
2012 Fall
Local Food Workshops and Cultural Events
Mark Your Calendar
No Fruit Left Behind:
Gleaning Teams
Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25
Community Garden Volunteer Days
One Island: Oct 7th and 21st
National Food Day : Oct. 24th
3rd Annual Free
Green Living Fair
Sat. October 6th, 9-1
with free soil-building, solar energy, and green classes -
plus featuring the
SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION CHALLENGE AWARD SHOWCASE
followed by a lovely
Farm-to-Fork Dinner
at Kealakekua Bay Bed and Breakfast, 5-9pm Green Living Series: Grow your own Mushrooms! Shitake, Pearl and Kombucha Wed. October 10th, 9-12 Greening Your Business with 'The Green CEO' author Lynn VanLeeuwen Thursdays Oct. 18th, Nov 8th Fruit Lovers Fair Special Guests Jim West of Ecuador and Ken Love, HTFG Sat. October 27th Green Living Series: Coffee roasting and brewing homestyle methods Wed. November 7th, 9-12 Harvest Music Festival Sat. November 17th 4-9pm with local foods potluck Chocolate Chocolate! and Art Fair December 8th
Green Living Review:
Soy Sauce, Tempeh, and Mushrooms
Saturday, December 29th
9-noon
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Celebrate Sustainability!
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Support Local
Farmer's Markets | |
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Got Food? Local Farm and Garden Produce Wanted. Farmers and gardeners are invited to enroll in One Island's Farmer's Market co-op. Call Raven at 328-2452 or email hawaii@one-island.org to learn more.
Buy Local Support local farms at the One Island booth Sundays at the South Kona Green Market. Buy locally grown fruits and vegetables plus we feature Buying Club sustainability products.
South Kona Green Market
Sundays 9-2 at Choicemart
Put your money where your heart is - Buy Local!
100% of sales benefit local farms and One Island programs |
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FUNDRAISERS
for One Island's
Great Programs |  | |
Show your support for the NO FRUIT LEFT BEHIND local food gleaning project by purchasing a fun shopping tote or cotton T-shirt through our Buying Club, Farmer's Markets, or at One Island events.
Visit our Buying Club Page to learn more
100% of proceeds supports our educational and resource conservation programs. |
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OI Volunteers at SKEA |
Good Medicine
Garden Volunteering | | |
Oct. 3rd, 17th and 31st at One Island, with National FOOD DAY special community event on Oct. 24th, 9am-noon
We host fun team weekly Volunteer Days at One Island plus one out at community garden location on selected Wednesdays.
Local islanders and visiting guests from around the world come lend a hand for educational work projects, take the farm tour, and then enjoy a free community lunch. And each month we invite guests to join us for community service mornings at a local non-profit to help increase their sustainability practices. All ages and abilities welcome.
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National
FOOD DAY
is October 24th
Learn more about the nationwide FOOD DAY and find a way to celebrate it locally. Eat local, eat healthy, support local gardens and farmers! | | |
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Fall is Full of Fruity Fun!
October is the beginning of Fall and here at One Island it is full of some really fun learning activities. You can see the Innovation Challenge contest entries online and vote for your favorite, then view contest exhibits at the 3rd annual Green Living Fair and see sustainability in action. We'll wrap up the month with a special Fruit Lovers Fest.
Our popular new project No Fruit Left Behind has harvested over 2,200 pounds of fruit so far - food that would otherwise have gone to waste. Whoa!!
The fruit enters our local food supply at farmers markets, food bank pantries, natural foods stores, and is even handed out on the streets as a guerilla gleaning awareness campaign! Got Fruit? We'll come harvest!
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Delivering to a Food Pantry every week |
Growing and Giving in many ways - changing lives every day
Also coming up: Come learn how to grow your own mushrooms, join a volunteer garden day, and explore the flavors of Hawaii at the special Fruit Lovers Fest on October 27th with a guest speaker from Ecuador.
Green IS a Verb - Let's Do It, Together! |
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Sustainability Innovation
Challenge Award:
Who's Got a Great Green Idea?
The Hawaii Island Sustainability Innovation Challenge entries are ready for viewing on our web site, with a link to the voting page where we invite YOU to be a judge and pick your favorite for the People's Choice Award.
Green buildings, alternative transportation, agriculture inventions, sustainable communities and renewable energy - lots of great ideas to explore!
Green Business Sponsors are providing $2,600 in prizes:
Mauna Lani Resort, Kohala - a leading solar powered
hotel complex- two nights for two and two breakfasts.
Inn at Kulaniapia, Hilo - hydro-powered - 2 nights for
two at their waterfall-side BnB
Ke'ei Cafe, Kealakekua - lunch certificate
Kalani Oceanside Resort, Kalapana - eco/wellness destination for 40 years - gift certificate
Kealakekua Bay Bed and Breakfast - showcase for contest winner at Farm-to-fork and 3 cash prizes for inventors
Merrimans Cafe, Waimea - local foods leader certificate
Fairwinds, Kona - snorkeling tour for two
Hawaii Forest and Trail, Kona - store certificate
Winners and honorable mentions will be on display at the free Green Living Fair on Saturday, October 6th
at One Island's Sustainable Living Center.
Mahalo to our Sponsors - pioneers in the Greening of Hawaii !
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3rd Annual
Green Living Celebration
Saturday, October 6th
Fair with exhibits and presentations at One Island 9-1
Farm-to-Fork Dinner at Kealakekua Bay BnB 5-9pm
The 3rd Annual Green Living Fair includes home, garden, and farm sustainable tools and practices in action: electric bikes, solar golf cart, plus mobile solar, solar hot water, water catchment, rain harvesting, edible land-scaping, aquaponics, zero-mile gardens, raised and container gardens, bio-char, Natural Farming, pollinator plants, medicinal plants, greenhouse, health and wellness practices. Face painting for the youth and solar art projects. Music, fun and food too!
Held on the grounds of One Island's organic farm and learning center in Honaunau, 9am-1pm with a fun local food picnic lunch 12-1pm by reservation (macnut mushroom burgers and local greens/fruit salad) $16 adults, $12 under 15. Email hawaii@one-island.org for directions and a parking pass, or lunch.
Sustainability Innovation Challenge Award Winners will have products on exhibit too. Come celebrate the amazing ingenuity of our Island neighbors!
Treat Yourself. For an elegant Green Living evening, host Emily Peacock is offering a seasonal local foods Farm-to-Fork Dinner at the Kealakekua Bay Bed and Breakfast on Napo'opo'o Road overlooking the Bay. A One Island Sustainability Innovation Challenge Award winner will showcase their product during the pupu hour and three cash prizes are being donated to the contestants. Tickets are $85 for a lavish multi- course locavore dinner prepared by award-winning chef Daniel Thiebaut. Call 328-8150 for reservations.
Saturday, October 6th - Save the Date!
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New workshop series:
Greening Your Business
How-to Peer Workshop
Thurs., Oct. 18th
8:30-4:30 and follow-up
Thurs. Nov. 8th
8-noon
led by Green CEO author,
Lynn Vandeeluwen
Small Business Owners and Managers are invited to join a pro-active peer group for a dynamic workshop on increasing the sustainability of your business methods and practices. This is the first in a series of 2012-2013 workshops at One Island about moving to action and seeing results.
If you operate a local BnB, adventure tour, health service, art gallery, restaurant, consulting service, farm, retail store, or small business wanting to increase its sustainability, this is the best workshop of the year to help you identify Green Business opportunities that are good for the planet and for profitability. You'll learn techniques and practices that help small and rural businesses thrive and how you can begin implementing changes in your own business practices that save money, increase customer loyalty, attract top employees, and generate revenues.
People, Practices, and Profitability
that are GOOD for the Planet |
 No FruitLeft Behind
2,200 pounds and counting!
Farms, Gardens, Orchards, Gleaners, and Sorters Wanted
Meet-ups: Thursdays - Gleaning 9-12
Cleaning/Processing 1-4
The Gleaning Crew has been having a great time helping pick, sort and share the abundance with people who are hungry for more local foods and better nutrition. August and September saw a whopping 2,000 pounds of food diverted from waste our first two months!
Donations went to the Painted Church Food Pantry and are shared at farmer's markets. We are raising funds to cover tool and transportation costs. Donations of produce, time, fuel, tools and support are welcome!
The facts are: in 1960, 90% of Hawaii's food was grown locally; by 2000, 90% was being imported.
Let's turn it back around!
Contact: Quinn Yeamans (volunteers)
or Raven Bolas (farms),
info@one-island.org 328-2452
Reclaiming our Local Food System,
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Grow your Own
Mushrooms
 Wed. October 10th9am-noon
We've arranged for a special Ag Dept. permit to import mushroom growing supplies for this class and for our Buying Club. Come learn how to grow mushrooms in your kitchen and in your yard. Each participant will go home with a kitchen counter mushroom kit and supplies to also start a mushroom log out in their yard. Special feature: a demo of kombucha making - the great fermented drink full of incredible health benefits.
Class fee including take home materials is $55.00.
Includes a Hawaii-grown mushroom tasting.
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 Coming up: Fruit Lovers
Fest
Saturday, October 27th, 4-8pm
Come learn about exotic tropical fruits from around the world with guest speaker Jim West, master international seed purveyor visiting from Ecuador. Hear about Hawaii Tropical Fruit Grower's progress in bringing more great local fruits to our tables with Ken Love, HTFG President. And celebrate the accomplishments of No Fruit Left Behind.
There will be fruit tastings, a fruit tree pruning demonstration, farmer's fruit for sale, and live music to make this a fun-filled fest. All ages welcome. This is a free event, just RSVP for parking pass and directions to hawaii@one-island.org.
Come enjoy the sunset, bring a potluck dish that uses local foods, and share your passion for Hawaii's great gift - incredible local fruit!
A big thanks to our sponsor, the USDA Farmer's Market Promotion Program,
for helping us bring local farmers and their supporters together in
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